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    It is not the case that Most offenders do not in fact tacitly consent to their sentences.

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    • 1.Most offenders are unaware either that their acts are subject to punishment or of the severity of the punishment to which they may be liable.
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    • 2.For someone to have consented to be subject to certain consequences of an act, she must know of these consequences.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Consent requires a voluntary, uncoerced agreement, but most offenders act under conditions of poverty, addiction, or social duress that vitiate voluntariness.
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    • 2.Rawls argued that fair social cooperation presupposes just background conditions; where institutions are unjust, no tacit consent to their penalties can be inferred.
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    • 3.A person cannot meaningfully consent to a legal order whose terms she had no genuine role in shaping, as marginalized offenders typically lack such political agency.
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    • 1.Tacit consent, as Hume observed, is a philosophical fiction when exit from the relevant jurisdiction is practically impossible for the vast majority of citizens.
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    • 2.The inferential gap between remaining subject to law and consenting to penal consequences is too wide to bridge without an explicit, informed acceptance of specific sanctions.
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