the practice and theory of influencing other people.
Politics involves the making of a common decision for a group of people
a uniform decision applying in the same way to all members of the group
contains a matching with choosing among available actions in a group for the benefit of the group.
The main difference to what I meant (ahem) is that politics describes the real thing with unequal power whereas population ethics prescribes independent of the decision makers power.
I did look up Wikipedia on population ethics and considered
to be matching if you generalize by substitution of “number of people” with “well-being of people”.
But I admit that politics
contains a matching with choosing among available actions in a group for the benefit of the group. The main difference to what I meant (ahem) is that politics describes the real thing with unequal power whereas population ethics prescribes independent of the decision makers power.