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    Supports→The fact that the alternative to remaining in a state would be terrible is not a sufficient reason to think that those who choose to remain in a state are not thereby bound by political obligation.

    Genuine consent requires that the consenting party could reasonably have chosen otherwise without facing catastrophic harm, following Kant's distinction between coercion and free rational agency.

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    Catastrophic harm(ethics and philosophy of action)
    Severe, life-altering damage or suffering—the kind of serious consequences that would make it unreasonable to expect someone to have chosen a different path.
    Coercion(Kant's political philosophy; used to argue coercion is constitutive of rights, not merely instrumental.)
    A restriction of the freedom to pursue one's own ends.
    Free rational agency(philosophy of action and ethics)
    The ability to make your own decisions based on reasoning and logic, without being forced or manipulated by external pressure.
    Genuine consent(as used in ethics and law)
    True, freely-given agreement where someone makes a choice without being pressured or manipulated.
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    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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