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Originally Posted by smc
With all due respect to you, my friend, I don't think you are using the term "social contract" in the way I am, and certainly not according to the standard definition as employed by philosophers and political scientists since Rousseau, who wrote the first definitive book on the subject.
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Originally Posted by randolph
Frankly, I don't understand your view of the social contract.
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Just as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and others came to their own different ideas of what the social contract is I too have my own version of what it is.
For me the social contract is what politicians say they are doing for their citizens all the while making it look like it isn?t really the citizens paying for it, but rather giving the impressions that the politicians are somehow creating programs out of the goodness of their heart and the generosity of their spirit.