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Nathanael Tekalign's avatar

Future contracts are NEVER those who died before the contract is created.

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Thesmara's avatar

Not future contracts, but universal contracts, contracts that exist outside time and space (ie, abstractions).

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Nathanael Tekalign's avatar

Just because it is impossible to reasonably reject a contract doesn’t mean that the same contract is binding on whose who unreasonably reject. Here’s a link that gives more detail:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dhuDBKxaHCvyDnwf8/review-the-problem-of-political-authority-by-michael-huemer

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Nathanael Tekalign's avatar

Hypothetical contract, hypothetical duties.

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Thesmara's avatar

Justice and morality are abstract, duties and rights are concrete. The latter is downstream of the former.

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