Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Re: Declaration of self-ownership CHALLENGE

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
291 views
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Mar 25, 2007

My response. I do believe in social contract as a valid way to balance the freedom of the individual and the continuation of the species. I also think decrying the state as an inherently evil entity is blatantly denying the reality of humanity.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 8 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Video Responses

This video is a response to Declaration of self-ownership CHALLENGE
see all

All Comments (20)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I am working on a video (series) in defense of Social Contract, probably due out after the holidays.

  • My pleasure conversing with you. Please feel free to contact me anytime you wish.

  • You're right, it is not a voluntary interaction but then again it is a really bad simile to what goes on in a contract society and thus is completely meaningless.

    Oh, and nice avoiding the statements I posted.

  • I proceed to provide 'security service' for you, then point a gun at you, and extract funds from you, and say "this is protection money you owe me"- that cannot justifiably considered a voluntary interaction.

  • I agree that society should be voluntary, but most people volunteer without realizing it. Any time you gain a benefit from specialization or collective effort, you have volunteered.

    To sit there and reject the contract society while reaping the benefits you receive from it it just not a defensible position.

  • "What you don't realize..."

    No, I fully realize it, and reject it. These are not exclusive options.

    I understand that a social contract can be agreed to be some, but I do not believe that makes it justifiably applicable to all. Doing so is an argument for 'might makes right'.

    Taking the argument of 'might makes right' can equally be used to justify the Nazi's.

    I believe that every person must be allowed to find their own voluntary place in society.

  • It can be voluntary, even if not always so. What you don't realize is that you are living under such a contract right now even if you reject it. Specialization is the tangible result of the social contract.

    I also reject the classical definitions of social contract because they were before the theory of evolution that explains how the contract came about and continues to work.

  • "I was talking social contract. Voluntary surrender of certain freedoms to gain a bigger benefit."

    If it were voluntary, then it wouldn't be a social contract. By definition, a social contract is not agreed to, thus involuntary.

    I personally reject all involuntary contracts from individuals or imaginary entities.

  • Tool.

  • Not too bad, a reasoned rebuttal to childish selfish statements.

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more