The murderer cheerfully admits that he did it, but produces a "murder offset," which allowed him to pay someone else *not* to commit a murder, using market-based price-discovery mechanisms to put a dollar-figure on the true worth of a murder, which he duly paid, making his kill absolutely fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

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