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    It is not the case that Wolff's 'In Defense of Anarchism' establishes that autonomous moral agency is categorically incompatible with binding political authority.

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    • 1.Autonomous agents can rationally choose to delegate judgment to institutions that better aggregate knowledge and protect rights.
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    • 2.Autonomy doesn't require moment-to-moment consent; it permits binding commitments and stable cooperative frameworks.
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    • 3.Perfect incompatibility claim proves too much—it would invalidate contracts, promises, and other structures autonomous agents create.
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    • 1.Moral agency requires the capacity to judge rules as right or wrong; accepting binding authority suspends this judgment.
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    • 2.No consent procedure can truly bind future autonomous agents to decisions they didn't personally endorse.
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    • 3.When state coercion overrides individual judgment, responsibility transfers from agent to authority, undermining autonomy.
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