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by leoh 590 days ago
What do you mean? It is literally the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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That's not how people use it, such as the person I replied to. There was no consent, explicit or otherwise. They use it to mean "I want things to be this way, so people should be obligated to a rule I made up because 'society'".
Ironic because you just made up your own definition yourself