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    What appears voluntary may reflect severely compromised rational agency, making the consent condition in P1 empirically defeasible in most actual cases.

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    • 1.Empirical psychology shows cognitive biases, social pressure, and informational asymmetries systematically distort decision-making in most contexts.
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    • 2.Rational agency requires understanding consequences and acting on stable preferences; most people lack full information or self-knowledge about either.
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    • 3.If consent requires uncompromised rationality but actual humans rarely achieve it, the consent condition becomes practically vacuous unless empirically grounded.
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    • 1.Perfect rationality is not the standard for valid consent; procedural conditions like comprehension and non-coercion can be satisfied despite cognitive limits.
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    • 2.Claiming most consent is empirically defeasible conflates inability to meet ideal standards with actual inability to exercise meaningful agency in practice.
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    • 3.If the claim holds universally, it paralyzes moral judgment since we must sometimes treat compromised agents' choices as binding to respect their autonomy.
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