Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups.
Libertarian paternalism is an oxymoron because it is totally at odds with the second argument. Okay fine, you are not forcing anyone to do anything. But you are still assuming that top men can properly deduce what the right things people ought to be doing are.
Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a perfect society but of a better and freer one. It promises a world in which more of the decisions will be made in the right way by the right person: you. The result will be not an end to crime and poverty and inequality but lessâoften much lessâof most of those things most of the time.