In most cases, though, soft paternalism means the government giving people a choice, but skewing the choice towards the one their better selves would like to make.

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Around Ed, people wanted to be their better selves.

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With more ways to share in public space, the people around us can not only help us make better places, they can help us become our best selves.

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