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It seems some of us have indeed left the old myth of the social contract behind us, just like we've abandoned the myth of the divine right of kings. Certainly easy air travel and mass communication has changed us, but I'd like to think it's our nation states who are not keeping up with the change.


I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

Are you making an anarchical argument in which the entire notion of governmental authority and/or social contracts is discarded?

Or are you saying that nation-states are inappropriate sources of authority in preference for some sort of trans-national/global authority?

Regardless of what you want, the fact is that we still have nation states and their associated social contracts and a unilateral effort by an indvidual to disregard or violate those norms isn't without consequences.

There are certainly arguments to be made that some of those social contracts are perverse and one-sided in nature (e.g. North Korea as an extreme example).

What are the flaws in the typical 'Western' social contract that you would see fixed? what is your fix?




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