In this article I examine the most prevalent explanation for why coercion ever undermines consent, an explanation that I call “moral debilitation.” On this view, the manipulative strategy of coercion can disempower an agent from making the relevant change to the moral world—one necessary to grant another person a permission. I argue that coercion rarely debilitates and that there is an alternate method for explaining why coercion ever undermines consent. In the face of certain types of coercive threats, an agent’s compliance fails to have the implicit content that is usually responsible for doing the transformative work of consent.

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强制、同意和机械问题

在这篇文章中，我研究了为什么强制会破坏同意的最普遍的解释，我称之为“道德衰弱”的解释。根据这种观点，强制的操纵策略可以剥夺代理人对道德世界进行相关改变的权力——这是授予他人许可所必需的。我认为强制很少使人虚弱，并且有一种替代方法可以解释为什么强制会破坏同意。面对某些类型的强制威胁，代理人的遵从性没有通常负责做同意的变革性工作的隐含内容。