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    It is not the case that Consenting to a risk forfeits one's legitimate grounds for complaint when the risked harm materializes

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    • 1.Consent to a risk is not consent to every instance of that risk, particularly those arising from negligence or rule-violation by the other party.
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    • 2.The boxer consents to harms within the rules of the sport, not to harms caused by, e.g., a concealed weapon or a referee's corrupt inaction.
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    • 3.Therefore, consent to a category of risk does not extinguish complaint when the specific harm arises from a non-consented-to cause within that category.
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    • 1.Joel Feinberg's distinction between 'bare consent' and 'valid consent' requires that consent be fully informed, uncoerced, and competent to be morally forfeiting.
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    • 2.Structural coercion—such as economic necessity driving workers to accept dangerous conditions—can render apparent consent insufficiently voluntary to extinguish complaint.
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    • 3.Where the asymmetry of power between parties undermines genuine voluntariness, consent does not carry the moral weight required to forfeit legitimate grievance.
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    • 1.A boxer who consents to a boxing match has knowingly and willingly risked bodily harm
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    • 2.Having one's nose broken in a boxing match is a genuine harm
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    • 3.One cannot fairly complain about a harm one consented to risk
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