Sceptics are resistant and if they want to bite the bullet and avoid a normative agenda then the claim that might is right is hard to derail. However, they — the sceptics — often cannot resist a claim about the promotion of the interests of a specific class and implicitly assert a normative agenda.
Next week, I want to start with a tutorial on paternalism. Read Berlin (available in blackboard) and then think about these berlin tutorial questions. Above all, think about a government with the power to choose what you wear and which job you do. Why shouldn’t it have this power? Answers, puzzles and comments can be posted into the comments/replies below. You only need to log in with your normal university username.