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    It is not the case that Refraining from or performing an action can only count as indicative of consent when specific conditions are satisfied.

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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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    • 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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