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    It is not the case that Competitive economic losses are not harms in the relevant sense because they are consensual.

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    • 1.Structural coercion under conditions of economic necessity renders 'consent' to market terms formally voluntary but substantively constrained.
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    • 2.Mill himself distinguishes liberty from mere absence of direct interference, requiring conditions that enable genuine autonomous choice.
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    • 3.Where exit options are practically unavailable, competitive losses imposed by dominant market actors cannot be classified as mutually consented risks.
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    • 1.Nozick's own framework concedes that the baseline for determining harm requires comparison to a morally appropriate counterfactual, not merely prior agreement.
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    • 2.If competitive practices worsen another's position relative to what they would have been absent the actor's conduct, the consensual framing obscures a genuine setback to interests.
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    • 3.Feinberg's account of harm as wrongful setback to interests is independent of consent, since consent to competition does not entail consent to every method employed within it.
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    • 1.The harm principle targets only non-consensual harms (volenti principle).
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    • 2.In a market economy that ensures fair terms of cooperation, economic losses are freely risked and therefore consensual.
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