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    It is not the case that Interdependent individuals would consent to the establishment of state authority and law.

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    • 1.Hume argues that consent to political authority is largely fictitious, as most subjects never actually consent but are born into existing states.
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    • 2.Tacit consent theories (Locke notwithstanding) conflate mere residence or non-emigration with genuine voluntary agreement.
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    • 3.Without actual consent, the social contract describes hypothetical rational acceptance, not a normatively binding political obligation.
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    • 1.Anarchist thinkers like Kropotkin demonstrate that interdependent communities historically resolved conflict through mutual aid without centralized state authority.
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    • 2.The inference from endemic conflict to state authority commits a false dilemma by excluding non-state institutions as conflict-resolving mechanisms.
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    • 1.Interdependence among individuals produces endemic conflict.
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    • 2.This conflict creates Hobbesian insecurity.
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    • 3.Fear of Hobbesian insecurity leads all individuals to consent to state authority to escape it.
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