Ok, let’s take kidney sales as a specific. Whether it’s “each agent must decide whether to buy or sell a kidney today” or “each agent must decide whether to accept rules that allow buying or selling a kidney, and then must decide if that rule should apply to this specific situation”, the agent must decide, right?
Of course—but if the rule is not formulated so as to make it nigh-trivial to determine whether it applies to any given situation, then it’s not a very good rule, is it?
And then all the considerations I’ve already outlined in my previous comments apply.
Ok, let’s take kidney sales as a specific. Whether it’s “each agent must decide whether to buy or sell a kidney today” or “each agent must decide whether to accept rules that allow buying or selling a kidney, and then must decide if that rule should apply to this specific situation”, the agent must decide, right?
Of course—but if the rule is not formulated so as to make it nigh-trivial to determine whether it applies to any given situation, then it’s not a very good rule, is it?
And then all the considerations I’ve already outlined in my previous comments apply.