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Worked examples

Public examples for reviewable moral trades.

These records show how pledge swaps, donation offsets, and deferred paid-action examples should state actions, baselines, evidence, and review boundaries. They are not live marketplace demand.

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Worked examples are crawlable public learning records. They should not be cited as real offers, guaranteed payments, legal commitments, or completed agreements.

Canonical examples

Examples with explicit review fields

Each example has a canonical detail page for citation and retrieval. Clone one only after editing the terms, baseline, evidence, and exit rules for the real situation.

Worked examplePersonal pledge swap

Victoria

Global poverty for Animal welfare

I already care about poverty, but a reciprocal trade would let me buy much more animal welfare than I could create alone.

Offered action
Donate 1% of my income to an evidence-backed poverty charity for 12 months.
Requested action
Adopt a vegetarian diet for 12 months.
Action evidenceReceipts, donation records, and an annual review checkpoint.
Baseline confidenceModerate
Externality reviewReview whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.
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Worked examplePersonal pledge swap

Paul

Animal welfare for Global poverty

The diet shift is worth it if it reliably increases poverty giving that I would not otherwise cause.

Offered action
Go vegetarian for 12 months, with a yearly check-in and visible meal log.
Requested action
Donate 1% of income to an effective poverty fund for the same period.
Action evidenceReceipts, donation records, and an annual review checkpoint.
Baseline confidenceModerate
Externality reviewReview whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.
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Worked examplePersonal pledge swap

Nia

Climate for Public health

I want a mixed trade that links a climate habit to a public-health action with light verification.

Offered action
Replace two weekly car trips with transit and contribute monthly to a climate resilience fund.
Requested action
Volunteer four hours each month with a vaccination or clinic outreach effort.
Action evidenceA dated public pledge plus light follow-up evidence.
Baseline confidenceWeak
Externality reviewReview whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.
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Worked examplePersonal pledge swap

Omar

Public health for Climate

This is a reciprocal mixed trade, not a shared moral consensus.

Offered action
Volunteer four hours monthly with a community health campaign.
Requested action
Cut two weekly car trips and redirect the savings into climate resilience.
Action evidenceA dated public pledge plus light follow-up evidence.
Baseline confidenceWeak
Externality reviewReview whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.
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Worked examplePaid action offer

Lina

Financial support for Animal welfare

For me, paying for a real dietary shift is worth the money if it changes behavior that would not have happened otherwise.

Offered action
Pay $600 in three installments if someone adopts a vegetarian diet for 12 months.
Requested action
Adopt a vegetarian diet for 12 months with monthly check-ins and a simple meal log.
Action evidenceExternal payment records and completion evidence before any reliance.
Baseline confidenceWeak
Externality reviewCheck whether payment could reward strategic delay, newly escalated behavior, or pressure on vulnerable people.
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Worked examplePaid action offer

Marco

Animal welfare for Financial support

I am already somewhat open to the diet, so a credible payment offer makes the switch prudentially worthwhile.

Offered action
Adopt a vegetarian diet for 12 months, with monthly check-ins and a shared meal tracker.
Requested action
Receive $600 over the year if I follow through.
Action evidenceExternal payment records and completion evidence before any reliance.
Baseline confidenceWeak
Externality reviewCheck whether payment could reward strategic delay, newly escalated behavior, or pressure on vulnerable people.
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Worked exampleDonation offset

Rebecca

Gun rights for Gun control

If matched, this beats spending money on a zero-sum advocacy fight.

Offered action
Redirect $1,000 I would have sent to gun-rights lobbying into a global poverty fund.
Requested action
Redirect $1,000 you would have sent to gun-control lobbying into the same global poverty fund.
Action evidenceReviewer inspection of the named evidence before reliance.
Baseline confidenceModerate
Externality reviewPolitical-adjacent case study. Keep below lower-risk examples and require externality review for affected communities and unrepresented values.
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Worked exampleDonation offset

Christopher

Gun control for Gun rights

I still care most about policy, but matched redirection dominates cancelling out.

Offered action
Redirect $1,000 I would have sent to gun-control lobbying into the same global poverty fund.
Requested action
Redirect $1,000 you would have sent to gun-rights lobbying into that poverty fund.
Action evidenceReviewer inspection of the named evidence before reliance.
Baseline confidenceModerate
Externality reviewPolitical-adjacent case study. Keep below lower-risk examples and require externality review for affected communities and unrepresented values.
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Moral Trade

A pilot institution for cooperation under disagreement.

Moral Trade helps serious participants test small, reviewable commitments across moral disagreement. It does not provide legal, tax, escrow, or custody services.

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Reference points include Toby Ord's paper on moral trade and Forethought's discussion of convergence, compromise, threats, blockers, and moral public goods.