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    We cannot have special political obligations if we accept voluntarism

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    • 1.Locke's tacit consent—residing in a territory and using its roads—is too thin to ground genuine special obligations distinct from universal duties.
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    • 2.If mere presence suffices as consent, then captives and the stateless also 'consent,' reducing voluntarism to an empty formalism that explains nothing.
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    • 1.Simmons' anarchist conclusion follows necessarily: if voluntarism is true and virtually no one explicitly consents, then virtually no one has special political obligations.
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    • 2.Attempts to supplement voluntarism with fair-play or natural duty accounts abandon voluntarism itself, confirming that voluntarism alone cannot ground special political obligations.
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    • 1.Voluntarism holds that special obligations must be contractual (i.e., voluntarily undertaken) in nature
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    • 2.All men are born under some government without choosing it
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    • 3.Because we are born into particular governments without choice, our special obligations to those governments do not appear contractual in nature
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    So consider (ii), i.e., claiming that while some special obligations may initially appear to be non-contractual in nature, they are really contractual. We can see, for example, Locke’s famous appeal to the notion of tacit consent in the political context as an instance of this second strategy. In the Second Treatise of Government, Locke claims that we have special political obligations, i.e., obligations to our own government that we do not have to all governments. He himself, however, imagines
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