social contracts
Background
At the end of the last meeting, we discussed social media user agreements and the negotiations we agree to through our social engagements - sometimes de facto. We talked about how individuals make up homesteads and homesteads make up societies - in the light of the solar system of our communities. We naturally decided to talk next about Social Contracts.
Call to Action
Ignorance of the law excuses not!
Rules of engagement, solidarity, and remorse are some of the aspects of the complex social contracts we are a part of. Internal States, external images, and social contracts contribute to the fabrics of solidarity.
Submit a comment with the aspects of social contracts that you want to discuss in our next meeting.
References:
Constitutional Rights Foundation (crf-usa.org)
Ignorantia juris non excusat - Wikipedia
Quotes:
The Social Contract & Discourses
Rousseau
"The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and
protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each
associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may
still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." This is
the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the
solution.
"As the citizens, by the social contract, are all equal, all can
prescribe what all should do, but no one has a right to demand that
another shall do what he does not do himself."
Hobbes
"And hence it comes to passe, that in all places, men that are grieved with payments to the Publique, discharge their anger upon the Publicans, that is to say, Farmers, Collectors, and other Officers of the publique Revenue; and adhaere to such as find fault with the publike Government; and thereby, when they have engaged themselves beyond hope of justification, fall also upon the Supreme Authority, for feare of punishment, or shame of receiving pardon."
Locke
"Sect. 97. And thus every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation, to every one of that society, to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it; or else this original compact, whereby he with others incorporates into one society, would signify nothing, and be no compact, if he be left free, and under no other ties than he was in before in the state of nature. For what appearance would there be of any compact? what new engagement if he were no farther tied by any decrees of the society, than he himself thought fit, and did actually consent to? This would be still as great a liberty, as he himself had before his compact, or any one else in the state of nature hath, who may submit himself, and consent to any acts of it if he thinks fit. "