“We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests.”
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 321
“Owning a gun doesn’t make someone a “shooter” any more than owning a surfboard makes someone a surfer.”
Source: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 15
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