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I think some of us just hate being told what to do. Especially when it's 'for our own good'.
Your Doctor must love you.
I think there's a difference between a professional who has a legal responsibility to act in your interests, and the government, which doesn't. It's a matter of incentives, and I'm going to attach much more weight to my doctor saying that I should do something for my own good than from a government worker.
A more important difference is that I have a lot more choice in my doctor than in my government.
I confess the example was facetious. But I still can't empathise with the intuitive dislike of interference. I understand there are pragmatic considerations (e.g. choosing a good doctor) but this seems to go beyond that to being a value in and of itself (thus the original example of it not being a utopia if its run by an interfering government).
Well it won't be. Without the threat of leaving the government has little incentive to intervene benevolently.
Yes, it does. The difference is that you trust your doctor's competence, I suspect.