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    Supports→We cannot have special political obligations if we accept voluntarism

    Attempts to supplement voluntarism with fair-play or natural duty accounts abandon voluntarism itself, confirming that voluntarism alone cannot ground special political obligations.

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    Fair-play account(as a theory of criminal punishment and obligation)
    A theory suggesting that people who break the rules owe something back to society because they've unfairly taken advantage of the fact that others are following those rules.
    Ground (or grounding)(explaining what provides the basis for requirements)
    To serve as the foundation or reason for something; to explain why something is true or obligatory.
    Natural duty account(as used in political philosophy)
    A theory arguing that you have political obligations simply because you're a human being, not because you agreed to anything—similar to how you have a duty not to harm others naturally.
    Supplement(as used in logic and reasoning)
    To add something extra to something that already exists, like adding a vitamin to your diet — it adds to what's already there rather than changing the foundation.

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    special political obligations(Political philosophy)
    Obligations of obedience to the laws of a particular government that bind a specific individual, as distinct from general moral obligations that apply to all persons.
    voluntarism(Used here in a moral/theological context, likely referring to divine command theory or the view that moral facts depend on an act of will)
    A metaethical view whose implications conflict with necessary moral and logical truths, such as the wrongness of punishing an innocent person for another's wrongdoing

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