  It should be conceded, however, that this objection to the argument from respect relies on a particular understanding of what it is for a coercive law to be justified to an agent. Is there another account of this concept that would aid the advocates of the standard view? Perhaps. Nearly all theorists have argued that a coercive law's being justified to an agent does not require that that agent actually have what he regards as an adequate reason to support it (see Gaus 1996, Audi 1997, and Vallier 2014).  “The question is not what people do endorse but what people have reason to endorse” (Gaus 2010, 23).  Better to understand the concept being a coercive law that is justified to an agent along the following lines: