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 "Always with you this freedom! . . . as if it were obvious to all people what it wants to mean this word. But look: it is not so simple as that. Your freedom is the freedom from: no one tells your precious individual U.S.A. selves what they must do . . . . But what about the freedom to? Not just free from. Not all compulsions come from without . . . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?" --p. 320
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<		When both autonomy and susceptibility to coercion is influenced by education, what is the appropriate role of government, as adult, in shaping the decision-making process of the greedy child? To what extent should temptations and their advertisement be prohibited; to what extent should school curriculum function to indoctrinate/ routinize cognitive decision-making algorithms of children from a ripe age; and to what extent can/should those algorithms be shaped to leave room for multiple and equally correct solutions to the same problem of choice (a kind of freedom via relativism)?
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>		Consumer education and consumer protection, then, define the debate. And given the implication that both miscibility variables -- autonomy and susceptibility to coercion -- are influenced by education, what then is the appropriate role of government, as adult, in shaping the decision-making process of the greedy child? To what extent should temptations and their advertisement be prohibited; to what extent should school curriculum function to indoctrinate/routinize cognitive decision-making algorithms of children from a ripe age; and to what extent can/should those algorithms be shaped to leave room for multiple and equally correct solutions to the same problem of choice (a kind of freedom via relativism)?
 "This is the crux of the educational system you [anti-American people] find so appalling. Not to teach what to desire. To teach how to be free. To teach how to make knowledgeable choices about pleasure and delay and the kid's overall down-the-road maximal interests." --p. 429
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<		But when is the targeting of known Pizza-Hut-lovers, entranced by the comfort of heart-stopping hydrogenated cheese grease, akin to dangling the fatal fruit? Are we all adults here, or do some temptations reduce us to children in need of government rescue?
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>		But when is the targeting of known Pizza-Hut-lovers who become entranced by the comfort of heart-stopping hydrogenated cheese grease akin to dangling the fatal fruit? Are we all adults here, or do some temptations reduce us to children in need of government rescue?
 "Get real. The Entertainment isn't candy or beer . . . You can't compare this kind of insidious enslaving process to your little cases of sugar and soup." --p. 430

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