Three Cheers for the Nanny State Vocabulary

a sense of pride in oneself; self-respect.

• Annotate

• Dignity

• Imprudent

• Crucial

to add a short explanation or opinion to a text or image

• Annotate

• Dignity

• Crucial

• Imprudent

protective, but controlling; in the way of a parent

• Crucial

• Dignity

• Paternalistic

• Annotate

not showing care for the consequences of an action

• Paternalistic

• Crucial

• Annotate

• Imprudent

 of great importance.

• Imprudent

• Crucial

• Dignity

• Paternalistic

 makes on value what they’ve already got over the alternatives, just because they’ve already got it—which might, of course, make one react badly to something new, even if it is an improvement over what they currently have

• Cognitive Bias

• Present Bias

• Optimism Bias

• Status quo bias

when one needs to take a small, easy step to bring about some future good, one fails to do it, not because they’ve decided it’s a bad idea, but because they procrastinate.

• Cognitive Bias

• Optimism Bias

• Present bias

• Status Quo Bias

when one tends to think that however likely a bad thing is to happen to most people in a situation, it is less likely to happen to us–not for a particular reason, but because one is irrationally positive.

• Cognitive Bias

• Optimism Bias

• Present Bias

• Status Quo Bias

when what we're interpreting doesn't match up with our sense of logic, so we draw our own conclusions—which may or may not reflect reality.

• Cognitive Bias

• Optimism Bias

• Status Quo Bias

• Present Bias

moral rule or set of ideas about right or wrong that influences individuals to behave in a certain way

• Principle

• Justifiable

• Rational

• Impose