LEGAL PATERNALISM: To what extent can the State protect us from ourselves? - Among the Lions

Reading time: 7 minutes by Giorgia Serra Legal paternalism has been the subject of extensive debate, not only in the legal field. It is, in fact, an interdisciplinary concept that involves disciplines such as philosophy and psychology. The crucial question to ask is whether the individual, in full possession of his faculties, can actually decide to adopt a behavior - or, more precisely, to perform an action or an omission - that causes to himsel…