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    It is not the case that A would-be promisee has standing to demand that his acceptance of a promise be genuinely free from coercion, manipulation, and deception

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    • 1.Hobbes and Hume argue that the binding force of promises derives from social convention and mutual utility, not from individual volitional acts.
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    • 2.On a conventionalist account, coercion affecting acceptance is a matter of contract law or social policy, not a pre-institutional moral standing of the promisee.
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    • 3.Therefore the claim inflates a legal or procedural protection into a foundational moral right that the conventionalist framework does not support.
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    • 1.Raz and Scanlon show promissory obligation arises from reliance and expectation, not from a discrete act of acceptance by the promisee.
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    • 2.If promissory obligation is grounded in reliance rather than acceptance, the promisee's freedom of acceptance is incidental, not constitutive.
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    • 1.It is part of the very idea of a gift that it cannot be forced on someone
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    • 2.A promise is analogous to a gift
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    • 3.Various rights and prerogatives derive from the would-be promisee's authority to reject the promise
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