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

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    • 1.The person must be aware that she is in a situation in which consent is appropriate and/or expected.
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    • 2.It must be made clear what must be done or not done in order to give consent.
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    • 3.It must be clear when the action is to be taken or avoided.
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    • 1.Rawls contends in A Theory of Justice that principles of fairness generate obligations independently of any consent, actual or implied, through participation in cooperative schemes.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.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.Hume argued in the Treatise that most citizens never actually perform any discrete act from which consent could be inferred, yet obligations still bind them.
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    • 2.If tacit consent requires explicit contextual conditions, then the vast majority of political obligations lack a valid consensual foundation, reducing the theory to near-universal non-applicability.
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    Locke famously appeals to the notion of tacit consent in order to accommodate special political obligations given his voluntarist commitment: “every man, that hath any possessions, or enjoyment, of any part of the dominions of any government, doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government, during such enjoyment, as any one under it” (64). A person gives tacit or implicit, as opposed to express or explicit, consent, when her consent is
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