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    The justification for a society's basic structure cannot ... — Carmelics
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    The justification for a society's basic structure cannot be that citizens have consented to it by staying in the country.

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    • Leaving one's society is not a realistic option for most people.
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    • 1.Tacit consent through continued residence is a coherent normative standard even when exit is costly, as Locke argues in the Second Treatise §119-122.
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    • 2.The difficulty of an action does not negate its normative significance; people retain meaningful agency in choosing to remain and thereby signal ongoing acceptance.
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    • 1.Hypothetical consent frameworks like Rawls's own veil of ignorance are more epistemically remote from actual citizens than the observable behavioral fact of continued residence.
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    • 2.If a justification grounded in no actual consent can be valid, then tacit consent via residency—however imperfect—provides at least as strong a legitimating ground.
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    The form of a society’s basic structure will have profound effects on the lives of citizens. The basic structure will influence not only citizens’ life prospects, but more deeply their goals, their attitudes, their relationships, and their characters. Institutions that will have such pervasive influence on people’s lives require justification. Since leaving one’s society is not a realistic option for most people, the justification cannot be that citizens have consented to a basic structure by st
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