ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to tacit consent, followed by a thought experiment. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. The thought experiment presents a case where a person who is living off the grid. She does not have a passport, she supports herself by growing food, she self-medicates, educates her children. She is getting particularly animated because it turns out that the council have found her tent on the local common land and are trying to move her out. This gives the breif thought of the tacit consent. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
