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Even shorter:

An entity gets to demand exactly as much from me as we agreed it could demand.

My giving it more does not mean it can demand more.

Therefore, without an agreement, nobody is allowed to demand anything of me.

(Laws are another matter, of course, unless you bring the social contract into it.)




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