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by Wyoming23 1311 days ago
Every choice and action a human makes is on some spectrum of consent.

At one extreme is a literal "gun to their head" moment where it's obvious there was no real choice and correspondingly the person shouldn't be held responsible (eg, someone points a gun at you and says hand over your wallet. That doesn't mean you really "gave" your wallet to them).

At the other end of the spectrum is a person with a tremendous amount of power, freedom and choice- eg, a rich person living in a Western country, making a decision where they have lots of options and/or can opt out or decline an opportunity freely.

It's easier to forgive a person doing something unethical to survive than a person living in luxury doing something unethical to have slightly more luxuries.