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| − | {{DES | des = Libertarians misrepresent social contracts as they actually exist, referring instead to philosophical models.}} | + | {{DES | des = Most libertarians violently oppose the philosophical idea of social contract. Libertarians usually misrepresent social contracts as they actually exist, referring instead to philosophical models. Not to be confused with [[Social Contract Theory (Cognitive Psychology)]].| show=}} |
| − | Most notions of social contract are based on imaginary states of nature,
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| − | usually based on "rights". Mine is based on the fact of the possible creation
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| − | of property by forceful threat, especially territorial property rights.
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| − | * Libertarians permit individual ownership of property, including land.
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| − | * Libertarians permit groups the same rights of ownership of property
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| − | Else marriages, partnerships, and corporations would have to dissolve.
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| − | * Libertarians permit group ownership of property, including land.
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| − | What are libertarians going to do, make a law restricting those rights
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| − | * Governments, being groups, can own property, including land.
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| − | * Owners, including governments, have freedom of contract about their property.
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| − | * Thus owners, including governments, can make contractual requirements about
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| − | the use of their property.
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| − | * The territory of a government is property of that government.
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| − | The philosophical ideas of property used by libertarians.
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| − | The legal definition of property.
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| − | The fact (anthropological) of property.
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| − | * Thus governments can make contractual requirements about the use of their
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| − | territory because it is property.
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| − | * Voluntary residency is sufficient to establish contract, both for privately
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| − | owned land and government.
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| − | * Corollary: refusal of voluntary residency based contract requires exit.
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| − | Assume your parents are sharecroppers, who live on the land.
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| − | You are born on that land, and raised with your parents.
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| − | The landlord can make any contractual requirement he wants for you
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| − | to reside there, and you have no choice but to accept or leave.
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| − | If private owners have these rights, why should governments have less?
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| − | * Libertarians endorse freedom of voluntary contract up to and including
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| − | waiving of individual rights for the purposes of the contract.
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| − | If I can enlist in the army voluntarily, then I can make myself
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| − | eligable for the draft in my voluntary residency contract.
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| − | Seaman's articles are a good example of contracts with penalties up
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| − | to and including death.
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