It's not meaningful to compare its invention to all of human history, so the fact that its hundreds of years old is what matters. As for why that matters addre

It's not meaningful to compare its invention to all of human history, so the fact that its hundreds of years old is what matters. As for why that matters addresses your other argument; it's not that the Hobbes is "smarter" than me, it's that people have had hundreds of years to refine/refute/improve social contract theory, and it is currently one of the two widely accepted modern moral frameworks, alongside utilitarianism. It's insanely hubristic to think I (or you) are going to casually outthink many many thousands of scholars over the course of hundreds of years in a series of HN comments. To even think you may know better, without even fully understanding what it is social contract theory is, puts you firmly on the wrong side of Dunning-Krueger.