RE: The Social Contract: Compliance vs. Consent

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The Social Contract: Compliance vs. Consent

in philosophy •  8 years ago 

That doesn't make sense, because the "social contract" is what supports the idea of government in the first place in modern political philosophy. Democracy relies on the presumption that people are virtuous in the voting booth, but need a government to curb their perversity at all other times. There is no social contract, and government operates by coercion rather than consent. Politics creates the incentives for abuse and destruction.

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