The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them but sometimes being stern with them.
2012-01, Steven Sloman, The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation, Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges†our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
