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    It is not the case that A transaction can be mutually beneficial and morally permissible even when one party benefits far more than the other, as Wertheimer's baseline analysis demonstrates.

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    • 1.Baseline analysis can obscure structural injustices that constrain alternatives. Desperate circumstances don't make exploitative terms genuinely voluntary.
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    • 2.Large benefit disparities may signal market failures, information asymmetries, or coercive conditions that undermine the moral permissibility claim.
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    • 3.Theories treating unequal gains as automatically permissible risk legitimizing arrangements that violate deeper duties of fairness and equal respect.
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    • 1.Morality requires comparing transactions to relevant baselines, not to hypothetical equal splits. Wertheimer's approach avoids impossible fairness standards.
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    • 2.If both parties improve their situation relative to their alternatives, exploitation concerns diminish. Consent matters more than distributional equality.
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    • 3.Prohibiting unequal-benefit transactions would prevent many genuine improvements for worse-off parties who have limited options.
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