>... And then died due to the loss of money from the transaction. A transaction with a short term benefit that results in long term disaster is not really a ben

>... And then died due to the loss of money from the transaction. A transaction with a short term benefit that results in long term disaster is not really a benefit. It's like being sold slow poison. Extending their life by a month doesn't result in the long term disaster though. They already have cancer. I don't follow extending life = slow poison at all. >People often have no choice. Like with the cancer drugs, if their only other option is to die, it really isn't a choice. So the benefit to performing the trade is so great that they wouldn't even consider not making it is somehow an argument against the trade being a benefit? The rest of your argument appears to just boil down to "there are exceptions". Cool, checkmate on that one. You found exceptions. Bravo.