The Social Contract is missing most of the elements of a valid contract. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
The social contract is a description of “the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.” The social contract asserts that all of us have consented to surrender some of our rights to a ruling group, in exchange for the protection of our remaining rights.
The question I’ll address today is whether this is a legitimate contract.
The social contract is certainly enforced as if it were a legitimate contract, but enforcement doesn’t legitimize anything; that’s merely one half of a contract, executed unilaterally.
The Requirements of A Contract
For any contract to be legitimate, a clear agreement and authorizations on both sides are required. Specifically (condensed from Wikipedia), a contract is:
An agreement entered into voluntarily by two or more parties, each of whom intends to create one or more obligations between them. The elements of a contract are “offer” and “acceptance” by “competent persons” having legal capacity who exchange “consideration” to create “mutuality of obligation.”
Any contract that fails to meet this standard is not a legitimate contract and its enforcement cannot be justified. And so, let’s examine some aspects of contracts:
Competence: In order to agree to a contract, one must be competent. You cannot, for example, make a contract with a hungry five-year-old, trading a few candy bars for a third of the child’s lifetime earnings. The child is not competent and any such agreement is invalid.
Love that meme of the Hollywood Babylon poseur has 1000 candy bars, while you have 10.
It convinces you to give up yours while they keep theirs and add to it.
Is that the social contract?
Or if the hive decides that you must shunned/exiled for wrongthink, cognitive dissident (H/T-TT), look weird or train way too much, according to them, while they drool and fatten up by the flashing box of Cloaca Maxima or sewerage…is that part of this so called contract?
Did everyone vote for muh demockcracy to become a suicide pact in November?
What’s this handbasket we are in and why is it travelling southbound so damn fast?
We’re all in this together, comrade, no shirking, everybody is supposed to help.
Yes we can, si se puede!