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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you ask a libertarian how their society is supposed to work and not self-destruct, they point to a Nonaggression Principle where supposedly most of society "agrees" to not commit violence or fraud. Yet they mock the idea of the social contract and say "I didn't sign anything." But isn't this nonaggression principle also a social contract? [/quote] The irony is that libertarians reject the social contract as utopian and point out that communism fails because of human nature, while failing to recognize and acknowledge the same fragile assumption in a libertarian paradigm. Both communism and libertarianism presume idealized human behavior: universal cooperation in one, universal non-aggression in the other. Yet human nature resists both. Not everyone will work selflessly, nor will everyone respect others' autonomy. [/quote]
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