When it comes to buying access to other people’s bodies, experience shows that it’s a buyer’s market: those with the economic power set the terms.
Sometimes I wish I was better at maths, because there’s a diagram I really want to draw. Here are the two axes – up the side, need for item or service; across the bottom, responsibility for obtaining that item or service ethically. As your need for something increases, the ethical burden on how you obtain it diminishes.
This model would be useful for conceptualising the morality of, say, stealing a loaf because your child was …read more
Source: New Statesman
