I'd take this a step further: Let's stop pretending there's some sort of "contract" in the first place. If you weren't told the terms, if you weren't given the

I'd take this a step further: Let's stop pretending there's some sort of "contract" in the first place. If you weren't told the terms, if you weren't given the option to negotiate, if you weren't even informed that you were party to the contract until after you were ostensibly bound to it, it isn't a contract. It's a diktat. You are subject to it, not party to it. Consent matters. Always and everywhere, consent matters. It doesn't just matter in the abstract. It matters in each particular. Consenting to chip in to build a road shouldn't be assumed to be consent to chip in to start a war. There is no "social contract." There's just subjection of people to power.