This is the kind of horrible, circular sh*t arguments that keep us enslaved.
I didn’t sign jack shit, but this lady thinks I did.
From: The Social Contract, by Elizabeth Warren
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you.
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factor because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory…
Now look. You built a factor and it turned into something terrific or a great idea—God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
This is the single worst argument I have ever seen for the social contract. It’s as bad as the circular reasoning of theists:
- The bible was written by god.
- The bible says that god exists.
- Therefore god exists.
The social contract:
- Roads, education and police require a social contract.
- The social contract says that we must pay for a monopoly on police, education and roads.
- You succeeded because people are forced to follow this nonsense.
- Therefore the social contract is valid.
The premise (1) is wrong, yet no one questions this, ever, for some ridiculous reason. This article is nothing more than proof that people refuse to think.
By the way, here’s the social contract defined and destroyed in five minutes.
(Source: lifeofjames, via ktovnull)
