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    It is not the case that Positing specific consent-conditions as gatekeepers of obligation-generating acts therefore over-privileges a voluntarist framework that competing deontological accounts have already shown to be dispensable.

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    • 1.Without consent conditions, we risk paternalistic impositions of obligations that violate individual autonomy.
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    • 2.Competing deontological accounts diverge widely—none conclusively demonstrates voluntarism is dispensable without remainder.
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    • 3.Consent protects against arbitrary obligation-assignment by grounding duties in the will of the obligated party.
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    • 1.Kantian duty-based ethics generates obligations through rational nature alone, not requiring explicit consent.
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    • 2.Consent-gatekeeping artificially excludes legitimate obligations like duties to rescue strangers or aid the vulnerable.
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    • 3.Voluntarism cannot account for pre-consent obligations (e.g., children's rights) that deontology successfully explains.
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