It is easy to come up with examples where this ethical theory leads to ridiculous outcomes. At the same time, it would be foolish to completely dismiss it. Man

It is easy to come up with examples where this ethical theory leads to ridiculous outcomes. At the same time, it would be foolish to completely dismiss it. Many of the examples listed in the article under discussion here give people the impression that exploitation is going on. And the broader point that is often ignored by self-proclaimed rational folks is that changing our society to accept arrangements that look like exploitation (even if they technically aren't) may itself cause damage, by increasing the acceptance of arrangements that are actually exploitation. Of course, that effect is basically impossible to measure, and self-proclaimed rational folks tend to ignore the hard-to-measure. Basically, there are underlying reasons for people to have Copenhagen-like reactions, even if they themselves are unable to articulate them.