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    Tacit consent cannot adequately ground the full range of ... — Carmelics
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    Tacit consent cannot adequately ground the full range of special obligations recognized by commonsense morality.

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    • 1.Locke's tacit consent requires meaningful exit options, but involuntary relations like birth into family admit no genuine alternative to acceptance.
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    • 2.Hume's objection stands: a person born into society who cannot leave has no more 'consented' than a sailor thrown aboard a ship mid-voyage.
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    • 3.Relations grounded in historical accident and unchosen dependency cannot generate normative force through consent without collapsing into coercion.
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    • 1.Scheffler and Scanlon show that associative obligations derive from the constitutive role relationships play in practical identity, not from voluntary undertakings.
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    • 2.If tacit consent were the ground of filial obligations, then a child who explicitly withholds consent would bear no duties to parents, which contradicts commonsense morality.
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    • 1.Tacit consent requires that a context meet specific conditions (as described by Simmons) for consent to be operative.
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    • 2.Friendship does not plausibly meet those conditions.
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    • 3.Familial obligations, such as those of children to parents, do not involve anything like a promise or contract, either express or tacit.
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    While appeal to tacit consent is most familiar in the context of attempting to ground special political obligations, one could also use this notion in order to ground, for example, special obligations to friends. Again, however, one would have to show that friendship is a context that meets the conditions as described by Simmons, and it seems implausible to suppose that it is. Further, however, some would have a further objection to construing obligations of friendship as contractual: such a mod
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