Quote (Santara @ May 18 2021 06:19pm)
So the social contract is invalid based on your perceptions of right and wrong?
Welcome to the libertarian party.
That's not what I was saying at all lol
If you have a group of people who are actively abused and remedies promised to them via the social contract aren't being fulfilled, then the contract becomes invalid. I have many misgivings about the state of the law, but I don't usually call them an invalidation of the social contract.
In the extreme, if you try to exterminate a group of people, those people are going to rise up. You don't get to say "but they're breaking the law". No shit, the law becomes irrelevant in that situation.
In the opposite end, if you follow all procedures that were agreed upon before the event, and the event just doesn't turn out the way you want (like if you lose an election despite your side having a massive advantage through their attempts to suppress votes) then that isn't the social contract being invalid.