(I aimed for non-”political” examples, which ended up sounding ridiculous.)
Suppose you believed that the color blue is evil, and want there to be less blue things in the world.
Suppose I believed the same as you, except for me the color is red.
Perhaps we could agree on a moral trade—we will both be against the colors blue and red! Or perhaps something less extreme—you won’t make things red unless they’d look really good red, and I won’t make things blue unless they’d look really good blue. Or we trade in some other manner—if we were neighbors and our houses were blue and red we might paint them different colors (neither red nor blue), or trade them.
Hmm, those examples seem to be just “trade”. Agreeing to do something dispreferred, in exchange for someone else doing something they disprefer and you prefer, when all things under consideration are permitted and optional under the relevant moral strictures.
I aimed for non-”political” examples, which ended up sounding ridiculous.
I wonder if that implies that politics is one of the main areas where the concept applies.
(I aimed for non-”political” examples, which ended up sounding ridiculous.)
Suppose you believed that the color blue is evil, and want there to be less blue things in the world.
Suppose I believed the same as you, except for me the color is red.
Perhaps we could agree on a moral trade—we will both be against the colors blue and red! Or perhaps something less extreme—you won’t make things red unless they’d look really good red, and I won’t make things blue unless they’d look really good blue. Or we trade in some other manner—if we were neighbors and our houses were blue and red we might paint them different colors (neither red nor blue), or trade them.
Hmm, those examples seem to be just “trade”. Agreeing to do something dispreferred, in exchange for someone else doing something they disprefer and you prefer, when all things under consideration are permitted and optional under the relevant moral strictures.
I wonder if that implies that politics is one of the main areas where the concept applies.