social contract

Great Debates
1

what with all the debate over napster, the Lockian social contract has come up a lot. now, as my understanding has led me to believe, the fundamental part of said contract is that everybody here has agreed (either consciously or by default) to follow the laws. if you don’t want to, you can leave.

you really can’t leave nowadays. sure, you can go to a place with different specifics, but for the most part the social contract is upheld in all societies. and if globalization continues on its merry way, soon there won’t be anyplace to go. how does this affect the social contract?

2

There’s always Antarctica :wink:

Zev Steinhardt

3

yeah, but as soon as those novus ordo seclorum knights templar in the democratic party megaconspiracy are done with it, antarctica will be an infinite regression of starbucks (a starbucks inside the bathroom of another starbucks, which is itself inside the bathroom of another starbucks, etc).

4

I guess I don’t see Napster as a way to avoid paying for something, as much as it is a way to recover the past we love and is fading away on us.

The stores are so harsh about clearing out old works, that it’s a real chore trying to find anything you remember.

If Napster were founded by Getty, like all the libraries, there would be statues of him on the web, just like in front of your local branch library.

How is that different?

5

sure, right.
um, okay.

6

ahem

7

so what the hell did that have to do with the ramifications of globalization on John Locke’s social contract?

8

Well, there are still lots of places to hide, and lots of nations with unusual gov’t systems. So, now it not a problem. On the other hand, those pissants never up & leave anyway, damn it.

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!!

9

Your summary of the social contract was too quick and dirty even for me. It is by no means an agreement that everyone just obeys all the laws. Maybe it would help if you went back and took another look.

MR