(April 25, 2014 at 10:06 pm)Heywood Wrote: It isn't a contract at all if you force the terms on one party. Contracts are something agreed upon by all parties involved. "Social Contract" is just a euphemism used by the left in place of governmental edict. It is a word designed to give legitimacy to their imposition of a particular world view. The south, prior to the Civil war, could have claimed a social contract justified slavery....but we all know imposed "Social Contracts" are an affront to individual liberty.
You're not forcing terms onto one party. The very nature of interacting with other people is what enters you into the social contract.
If I see you walking down the street, why am I not allowed to punch you in the face? It is because there is an implied contract between human, and the law is merely the enforcement of that contract.
Your slavery comment is just...stupid.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
