 Some associative theorists respond that the critics conflate considerations that disable associative obligations with considerations that ground or justify associative obligations (Horton and Windeknecht 2015, p. 914; Scheffler 2018, p. 11). For instance, it may be that the freedom to exit a relationship is a necessary condition for it being one that has the sort of value that justifies obligations on the part of those who participate in it. Awareness of the impossibility of exit may lead a person to feel alienated from their role in the relationship, or otherwise preclude it from being one that is valuable for that person. Yet it is the good realized in the relationship that justifies participants’ claims against one another, and the duties to which they correlate, not any consent implicit in their continued participation in it.