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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by syshum on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:32PM (#25483631)
>>But you seem to be making the case that this principle is completely disagreeable, and so you disagree with the social contract completely.

No, I just do not accept the idea that the terms of the "Social Contract" can be changed on the whims of a Majority / democracy, or worse on the whims of an elected officials

I believe in the Lockean principle of natural rights, on which I believe the terms of said social contract are written and are unchangeable

I believe what Authoritarian Democrats and Republicans call the "social contract" is a complete perversion of the concept in order to justify their own unethical power driven political ends.

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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by Apocryphon on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:41PM (#25483682)
What you’re disagreeing with is also how every single nation functions. By all means, people can disagree with the specifics of how different governments function, but what you’re describing is something common to every polity. Even despotates claim to rule by a theoretical consent of the oppressed.
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