Kant and many other philosophers hold that one has duties to oneself, including a duty to refrain from harmful activities. I, like Kant and many philosophers, believe that there can be duties that one owes to oneself. Refraining from smoking is one of these duties owed to oneself.
Robert E. Goodin used a paternalist perspective to describe refraining from smoking as a duty owed to oneself. He explains that public officials are bound to evaluate one’s preferences and judge them according to a standard of one’s own deeper preferences. Goodin suggests that public officials should act without a state of interference if one is acting on relevant preferences, settled preferences, preferred preferences, and one’s own preferences (Timmons).
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Robert E. Goodin used a paternalist perspective to describe refraining from smoking as a duty owed to oneself. He explains that public officials are bound to evaluate one’s preferences and judge them according to a standard of one’s own deeper preferences. Goodin suggests that public officials should act without a state of interference if one is acting on relevant preferences, settled preferences, preferred preferences, and one’s own preferences (Timmons).
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