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Actually, you've just outlined one of the good arguments against social contract theory.
by mmirate3 8y ago
Actually, you've just outlined one of the good arguments against social contract theory.
- adrusi 8y agoI don't know why you're getting down votes, because yes, I did. But my point isn't that contractarian ethics is how we should make decisions, it's that it's what's driving the grandparent's moral intuition — they even refer to a contract — and that what they're pointing out is actually a classic problem with that sort of ethical reasoning.
- mmirate3 8y agoApologies; I appear to have made my point in an overly indirect manner. Luckily your response here allows me to clarify myself concisely: Have you ever considered that that sort of ethical reasoning might in fact be pointing out a classic problem with society as we know it? (Insofar as, the legitimacy of today's centralized authorities rests upon social-contract theory, which as you have clearly shown, is baseless.)