Rousseau's Social Contract theory

[Madly_Sane]

This is an edit to the Social Contract Poll. Are you for or against Rousseau's Social Contract theory? If you are for it, do you also believe it should be applied to the US govt?

Reason for Edit: I fail. :cool:

[BuddyRey]

Social Contract Theory has never been and can never be an effective, let alone moral tool for addressing the needs of developed civilizations, IMO, because no government can claim to represent the interests of so many unique and diverse individuals.

Even when politicians pretend to hold the moral high ground through popular consensus, it is always to be taken as a spurious, if not plainly disingenuous conclusion that this approval extends to every citizen within their self-assigned jurisdictions.

Until these upholders of the alleged social contract can positively prove unanimity of consent, individuals can and must be allowed to choose their own governments within their own backyards, even if, for many of them, this means "no government" or "self-government."

[Stary Hickory]

One of those things that sounds good unless you consider all of those who oppose but must be killed, marginalized, or coerced.