1. What role does ethics play in economic and human relationships?
2. Why must a voting procedure rely on agreement that exists before the vote?
3. Why does a system of laws and penalties depend on willing compliance by most people?
What shared role does ethics play in economic and human relationships?
It provides a shared foundation for those relationships.
Why can voting not establish its own prior rules?
Doing so would create an infinite regress.
What must voting depend on before its procedure begins?
An agreement that exists before and outside the procedure.
Who do law and penalties mainly address?
The minority who do not sense the boundary themselves.
What does the system rely on most people doing?
Complying willingly.
Which motive does Adam Smith’s *The Theory of Moral Sentiments* present alongside self-interest?
Fellow-feeling.
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