Nudges are, roughly, ways of tweaking the context in which agents choose in order to bring them to make choices that are in their own interests. Nudges are controversial: opponents argue that because they bypass our reasoning processes, they threaten our autonomy. Proponents respond that nudging, and therefore this bypassing, is inevitable and pervasive: if we do not nudge ourselves in our own interests, the same bypassing processes will tend to work to our detriment. In this paper, I argue that we should reject the premise common to opponents and proponents: that nudging bypasses our reasoning processes. Rather, well designed nudges present reasons to mechanisms designed to respond to reasons of just that kind. In this light, it is refusing to nudge that threatens our autonomy, by refusing to give us good reasons for action.

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轻推，轻推，眨眼，眨眼：轻推就是给出理由。

粗略地说，微调是调整代理人选择的环境以使他们做出符合自己利益的选择的方式。助推是有争议的：反对者认为，因为它们绕过了我们的推理过程，所以它们威胁到我们的自主权。支持者回应说，轻推，因此绕过，是不可避免的和普遍的：如果我们不为了自己的利益轻推自己，同样的绕过过程往往会损害我们的利益。在本文中，我认为我们应该拒绝反对者和支持者共同的前提：轻推绕过了我们的推理过程。相反，精心设计的助推会为旨在响应此类原因的机制提供原因。从这个角度来看，拒绝轻推威胁到我们的自主权，拒绝给我们采取行动的充分理由。