The book examines central historical examples , like the Great Compromise that paved the way for the US constitution , which accepted the institution of slavery despite its inhuman , cruel and humiliating nature . Other test cases include the Munich agreement and the Yalta agreement – working from the assumption that WWII is a sort of laboratory for testing out our moral-political concepts and intuitions . The forced return by the Allies of the Russian POWs to Joseph Stalin 's hands served in the book as a paradigm case of a rotten compromise
Yalta agreement
Yalta Conference
Avishai Margalit