Al Roth

Well, just you and me.

But, you know, if you're going to be a market designer, you have to understand the full scope.

And part of the scope is that markets need social support to work well, and not all markets get social support.

And we market designers have to understand that better if we want to make interventions in markets.

So a repugnant transaction is some people want it, some people object to it, even though they can't tell if it has happened for moral or religious reasons.

Now, one transaction that used to be repugnant by that definition, maybe still is, but used to be illegal and is no longer illegal is same-sex marriage.

Also interracial marriage, incidentally.

Both of those were things that at least some states had laws against.

And in the United States, there weren't even laws against same-sex marriage so much as

It was inconceivable.

So that's something that was an illegal, a banned transaction that is now a legal transaction.

So Hippocrates was an ancient Greek doctor, and the Hippocratic Oath is an oath that he administered to his students.

They're supposed to promise to be good doctors, and part of it was, I will not give medical aid in dying.

That's a loose translation from the ancient Greek.

Religions still are very against.

I mean, certainly there's active religious opposition to medical aid in dying, which is, however, a growing practice.

Like a dozen American states now have some medical aid in dying.

New York state, where you're living, I think they're going to have it this year.

There was an organization called the Hemlock Society that published a book of how-to.

It was called Let Me Die Before I Wake.