That's a tricky one - can you be held to a social contract when you
haven't signed it?
I suspect that your agreement is implicit in your continued residence.
You yourself chose to move elsewhere didn't you? Thus rejecting the
contract.
The problem is that there is no community or nation state that will
ever exactly mirror your wishes and beliefs unless you start your own
(barely possible) or overthrow it and impose your own will, thus
inflicting your own view on the rest of the inhabitants. Also
unsatisfactory.
Thus the principle of solidarity comes into it, the idea that you'll
support the bits and people that you don't like in exchange for their
support of the bits which you do. That's compromise and a simple
reciprocal ethic. It seems to work mostly. Those who cannot grasp
that simple principle on a micro or macro level are the problem,
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/07/2007, at 4:11 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
> If you agree to something, you agree to it. I'll bet few of us have
> formally "agreed" to follow their government in whatever whim it
> follows. (Despite US school children having to recite that silly
> "Pledge of Allegiance" every damn day.)
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