Can giving someone additional choice ever be bad? e.g. "If you fly to australia I will give you a scorpion plushie".
GIVEN: no consent is violated (I am not stealing the plushie) and there's no punishment if refused ("you said no? Now i'm gonna mail you a box of live scorpions")
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Depends on the topic and choices.
"Buy this chocolate and you get a kiss from your crush"
Is less stressing then
"Kill your significant other and your best friend lives"
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If the person is actively threatening to kill the best friend, then I wouldn't consider this as a qualifying choice, because there's a consent violation.
However, if the best friend is *already* dying due to other forces, then I would consider this example as qualifying.
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If you're talking strictly choice, how would prefer to be killed? Drowning, stabbing, hanging, shooting. Lots of choices, all of them bad in my opinion. Note that not dying is not a choice.
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If I'm already going to die and it's inevitable, I'm definitely going to die by fire, and someone comes along and is like "Hey, you could also drown too maybe?" that seems like a good thing to me.
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Making choices expends time and effort. Filling up someone’s life with too many choices forces them to make that expenditure. Imagine if life were a Chinese restaurant and you always had a thousand choices. You’d give up dining!
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Insofar as it is possible to dispose of the plushie, that would be okay. If it was ‘I will tattoo you’ it would be doubly imposing. IMHO.
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I am probably not thinking large enough but does anyone have an example of something morally wrong that is consensual with all parties involved?
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my go to example is circumcision: both ofalternatives decided upon by parents w/o child's consent are better than giving him the additional choice when he's older.
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Offering to buy a drug addict's fingers is probably bad. They might accept even if you don't violate consent and you don't punish them.
Similarly, if someone kidnapped that person's child and demanded a big ransom, it might be bad to offer them a loan.
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