(May 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 12, 2014 at 5:36 pm)whateverist Wrote: The great advantage of a fair social contract is precisely the avoidance of such upheaval.
"Social contract" is a bullshit term invented by lefties in an attempt to make their opinions about social responsibilities look like facts.
Let me break that down for the hard of understanding. Of course there is no literal social contract. What I'm referring to is the general agreement that the status quo is tenable. Without that agreement, you have chaos, unrest and perhaps even revolution. At some point, starving while I'm waiting for begrudgingly provided healthcare out of the emergency room just stops looking like a better alternative than looting and taking what I need. We have enjoyed almost 200 years of civil order. Don't think that is an inevitable outcome. Stability and civilization only seem assured to the historically shortsighted and dimwitted.
