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    Challenges→Refraining from or performing an action can only count as indicative of consent when specific conditions are satisfied.

    If obligations can arise from fair-play principles without consent-conditions being satisfied, then consent is neither necessary nor the most coherent grounding for special obligations.

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    Consent-conditions(in ethics and philosophy of obligation)
    Requirements or situations where someone agrees to or accepts something, and these agreements are treated as important for determining what happens next.
    Fair-play principles(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    The idea that if you benefit from others following rules in a cooperative situation, you have a duty to follow those same rules yourself—it's only fair.
    Necessary(ontological distinction in Mulla Sadra's metaphysics)
    The principle, God; pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion
    Obligations(as used in ethics)
    Duties or responsibilities you have — things you're supposed to do because they're right or required.
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    (Used as shorthand throughout the discussion of sexual ethics)
    Valid or genuine consent by all the parties to a sex act
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    special obligations(Used to ask whether group membership — even in a just group — generates duties beyond general morality)
    Obligations owed specifically to members of a particular group, as distinct from general moral duties owed to all persons

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