"You are drawing some distinction that is not in the math I know.  If I sold Cheliax a weapon that I expected them to use to glass Lastwall, I would be treating Lastwall as a paving stone, because if I wasn't doing that, I wouldn't sell Cheliax the weapon."

"I'm not seeing how to reconcile your view with Abadar trading with Asmodeus.  Abadar, probably, expected there to be more fair trading, in the end, than if Abadar hadn't made that bargain, but it also tossed some number of expected people into Hell, and they wouldn't get any of the gains from the trade either.  That seems consistent only with Abadar sometimes doing things that benefit Abadar's interests and squash mortals, providing that Abadar isn't coordinating with the mortals who got squashed.  He's no doubt still viewing those mortals as agents that can trade with each other, and whose fair trade he values even when it's not with him.  But Abadar's not trading with those mortals, in the course of giving Asmodeus the resources to damn them, he's trading with Asmodeus."

"You are drawing some distinction that is not in the math I know.  If I sold Cheliax a weapon that I expected them to use to glass Lastwall, I would be treating Lastwall as a paving stone, because if I actually cared I obviously wouldn't sell Cheliax the weapon."

"I'm not seeing how to reconcile your view with Abadar trading with Asmodeus.  Abadar, probably, expected there to be more fair trading, in the end, than if Abadar hadn't made that bargain, but it also tossed some number of expected people into Hell, and they wouldn't get any of the gains from the trade either.  That seems consistent only with Abadar sometimes doing things that benefit Abadar's interests and squash mortals, providing that Abadar isn't coordinating with the mortals who got squashed.  He's no doubt still viewing those mortals as agents that can trade with each other, and whose fair trade he values even when it's not with him.  But Abadar's not trading with those mortals, in the course of giving Asmodeus the resources to damn them, he's trading with Asmodeus."

"You are drawing some distinction that is not in the math I know.  If I sold Cheliax a weapon that I expected them to use to glass Lastwall, I would be treating Lastwall as a paving stone, because if I actually cared I obviously wouldn't sell Cheliax the weapon."

"I'm not seeing how to reconcile your view with Abadar trading with Asmodeus.  Abadar, probably, expected there to be more fair trading, in the end, than if Abadar hadn't made that bargain, but it also tossed some number of expected people into Hell, and they wouldn't get any of the gains from the trade either.  That seems consistent only with the view of Abadar sometimes doing things that benefit Abadar's interests and squash mortals, providing that Abadar isn't coordinating with the mortals who got squashed.  Abadar is still viewing those mortals as agents that can trade with each other, and whose fair trade he values even when it's not with him.  But Abadar's not trading with those mortals, in the course of giving Asmodeus the resources to damn them, he's trading with Asmodeus."

"You are drawing some distinction that is not in the math I know.  If I sold Cheliax a weapon that I expected them to use to glass Lastwall, I would be treating Lastwall as a paving stone, because if I actually cared I obviously wouldn't sell Cheliax the weapon."

"I'm not seeing how to reconcile your view with Abadar trading with Asmodeus.  Abadar, probably, expected there to be more fair trading, in the end, than if Abadar hadn't made that bargain, but it also tossed some number of expected people into Hell, and they wouldn't get any of the gains from the trade either.  That seems consistent only with the view of Abadar sometimes doing things that benefit Abadar's interests and squash mortals, providing that Abadar isn't coordinating with the mortals who got squashed.  Abadar is still viewing those mortals as agents that can trade with each other, and whose fair trade he values even when it's not with him.  But Abadar's not trading with those mortals unfairly, in the course of giving Asmodeus the resources to damn them, he's trading with Asmodeus."