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  1. For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2024 - Utilitas 36 (1):1-15.
    What justifies differences in the acceptance of paternalism towards competent minors and older people? I propose two arguments. The first argument draws on the widely accepted view that paternalism is easier to justify the more good it promotes for the paternalizee. It argues that paternalism targeting young people generally promotes more good for the people interfered with than similar paternalism targeting older people. While promoting people's interests or well-being is essential to the justification of paternalism, the first argument has certain (...)
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