Question: What motivated ADM and its co-conspirators to undertake the price-fixing scheme? How might it benefit them? What reasons might justify condemning this arrangement among competitors? Treating it as a crime? Would it harm consumers? How? If antitrust law seeks to prohibit such conduct, how can it do so? What should the scope of the offense be? The punishment? Should the conspirators be permitted any defenses? What if they set "reasonable" prices that stabilized their industry and helped keep employment high? What if the arrangement helped lower their production costs? What if their only defense was to increase their profits?