And not a deed? Or a will? Or a merger agreement?
Future contracts are NEVER those who died before the contract is created.
Not future contracts, but universal contracts, contracts that exist outside time and space (ie, abstractions).
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
Hypothetical contract, hypothetical duties.
Justice and morality are abstract, duties and rights are concrete. The latter is downstream of the former.
Future contracts are NEVER those who died before the contract is created.
Not future contracts, but universal contracts, contracts that exist outside time and space (ie, abstractions).
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
Hypothetical contract, hypothetical duties.
Justice and morality are abstract, duties and rights are concrete. The latter is downstream of the former.