Week 6- Post 2

     Markets are often brought into the picture when trying to persuade someone to do something. In wars, the government must get enough soldiers to fight. But to convince their citizens to risk their lives, the government will usually increase the pay and benefits of being in the military to fuflfill the recruitment goal. Although, sometimes conscription or a lottery is used which raises the question of consent and self posession for the people who get chosen to fight. Also, during the civil war, the US used a combination of conscription and the market system to fill military spots. They made it so if someone was drafted and did not want to serve, then they could offer money to a substitute that would take their place. Money also plays a role in surrogacy when getting someone willing to be artifically inseminated, and it plays a role in egg and sperm donations.

    These markets bring up the idea of what money can and can't buy. People argue that hiring a substitute to take your place in war is morally wrong because it is similar to putting a price on a human life. These substitutes are also basically being coerced into accepting the offer because of how much they know the money will benefit them and/or their family. Whether it is okay to buy/sell eggs or sperm is also a debatable topic. Money has such value that some uses of it have become immoral because of the things being given a price.