Security lies at the heart of the social contract

Do you feel safe?

  • Safety is an illusion.
  • I like my creature comfort computer chair.
  • Nano-bug is a terrorist.
  • I worry that social security funds will not be there at my retirement.
  • There are criminals in my neighborhood.
  • I thrive on fear.
  • I could die at any one moment.
  • We need more guns.
  • We need more fencing and barriers.
  • Fuck saftey, lets go to a dance club.
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Well, do you feel safe?

What is a social contract exactly?

I don’t think people consciously agree to live in societies and such. thats probably a byproduct of humans living in hunter-gathering groups where they were status striving.

I’m suire for some people its a decision and we actively decide to stay, but, we naturally have an urge to live in groups, and cities, towns, villages, tribes, are the natural extention of agriculture, which is a natural extentsion from hunter-gathering.

Do you mean, our evolved tendency to live in groups, interact andform hiearchies and detect cheators (which we have evolved adaptations to do) a ‘social contract’

Do ants agree to a social contract too?

It might be as simple as the agreement that money has value. Or I wont kill you because i dont want to be killed myself.

Those things are largely determined by instinctual reactions to circumstancial environment input though. We don’t just ‘agree’ that money has value, most people ‘feel’ that money has value, and we feel this way because we have some inborn sense of trade.

I’m sure people do ‘agree to the social contract’ for ‘secruity’ i’m sure that most people don’t consciously agree to do these things openly, but rather do so instinctively.

I am talking about the “Feeling of safety” and “lies at the heart” means deeply ingrained.

if its instinctual, its an unspoken agreement, not signed.

I like answers 1 and 7, with a little bit of 10. But since I assume 7 is there as sort of a precursor to 10, I picked 1.

The fact that you like a little bit of 10, got you in the club, past the big burly bouncers.

Security built by taking away the security of other people.

( I’m on a dam roll. :laughing: )

I never signed a contract of any sort.

In any case, on the money discussion, money used to have value because it was gold and silver and everyone loves gold and silver. Now it’s worthless pieces of paper and the sooner everyone realizes it the sooner we can get back to real sound money again.

more fencing! with light sabers even…

-Imp

It’s a way to trick people into thinking government is necessary. They try to say that by living in a certain geographical area you’ve consented to this ‘social contract’ bullshit. Because that makes sense.

Fuck signing anything. If any of you told me you didn’t sleep with a blanket, I’d be surprised.

huh?

That oldschool. Electric fencing is the new fad. :wink:

i personally feel safe because i live in a safe place, which isn’t under attack by muslims or communists. and the whole point of the social contract is security in the broad sense of the word