The thesis tries to shed light on the question of how control by official authorities or technologies affects so-called self-control. Throughout history, many infectious diseases have emerged for various reasons, causing many deaths, and control techniques have been introduced to limit their spread. During the coronavirus era, new technologies and approaches were formed and developed to help control people and their actions. Due to the high lethality of the virus, most countries, including Slovenia, have introduced measures and rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In theory, after a certain period of time, people should get used to, accept and internalize certain (appropriate) behaviors adopted by the competent authorities. Theoretically, the moral result of this would be that these behaviors would be taken for granted, so control by authorities and technologies should eventually no longer be necessary. The key question here is how has external control, through various technologies and approaches, influenced people’s so-called self-control and behavior? It seems that external control had the greatest impact on people who accepted such rules and measures as necessary and adapted for the benefit of the community and the establishment or a “normal” state of affairs, and were therefore more likely to internalize and take for granted such necessary rules and expected behaviors than those people who did not believe in their effectiveness.
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