>if you won’t accept 1 pepper for 1 mushroom, then you should accept 2 mushrooms for 1 pepper
You need a bunch more assumptions for this to hold, and I would like to know what they are. For example: If I don’t have or want any mushrooms, and nobody I know wants mushrooms, then I can’t accept 1 pepper for 1 mushroom because I can’t pay the mushroom. But it still doesn’t make any sense for me to accept two mushrooms for one pepper either because I don’t have any use for two mushrooms. To get intuition about this, replace “mushroom” with something that is both useless and unavailable, such as a pound of neutrinos in a box. There’s no way to get the neutrinos into the box, and even if you had them in the box, they would leave the box instantly and still be useless.
In general, there is a tendency for people to use alleged theorems without checking the premises. You can get surprising outcomes when the premises don’t hold.
>if you won’t accept 1 pepper for 1 mushroom, then you should accept 2 mushrooms for 1 pepper
You need a bunch more assumptions for this to hold, and I would like to know what they are. For example: If I don’t have or want any mushrooms, and nobody I know wants mushrooms, then I can’t accept 1 pepper for 1 mushroom because I can’t pay the mushroom. But it still doesn’t make any sense for me to accept two mushrooms for one pepper either because I don’t have any use for two mushrooms. To get intuition about this, replace “mushroom” with something that is both useless and unavailable, such as a pound of neutrinos in a box. There’s no way to get the neutrinos into the box, and even if you had them in the box, they would leave the box instantly and still be useless.
In general, there is a tendency for people to use alleged theorems without checking the premises. You can get surprising outcomes when the premises don’t hold.