TY - JOUR ID - 2906 TI - Radically Questioning the Principle of the Least Restrictive Alternative: A Reply to Nir Eyal; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Saghai, Yashar AD - Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 3 IS - 6 SP - 349 EP - 350 KW - Least Restrictive Alternative KW - Nudge KW - Public Health Ethics DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.106 N2 - In his insightful editorial, Nir Eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. One upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. In this commentary, I maintain that Eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and I sketch two reasons for rejecting the mainstream and more plausible version of this principle. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2906.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2906_816d180a9669d0fd4f5d1e8ca1b26728.pdf ER -