 Things are more complicated than we might think at first here because it’s not unrealistic that, at least in some cases, the rejection of essential open benefits that we know we are going to receive anyway might be the product of motivationally-biased beliefs triggered by a desire to free-ride (i.e., irrational beliefs that we have developed, perhaps unconsciously, in order to receive those benefits without having to contribute our fair share to their production). And it’s plausible that when this is what explains our failure to accept the benefits in question, our fair-play obligations are not undermined (Renzo 2014). But there is no reason to think that this explanation will be valid in every case in which the benefits provided by the state are rejected. Realistically, some cases of rejection will be genuine, and in those cases, fairness seems unable to vindicate our obligation to obey the law.