“No one shall violate freedoms of others.“
This is the social contract Fora Stelo is proposing to everyone in the world.
This simple contract can create a world in which “everyone can live the way they want to live.”
With the help of this social contract, humanity can change the political organization of the world, international laws, constitutions, national laws, institutions and every aspect of societies so that everyone can live the way they want to live.
Even if the entire world does not accept it, most or some people can come together and build a society based on this social contract.
Details of this social contract and its consequences are analyzed in the book Society of Freedom.
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Why Such a Social Contract?
This social contract represents bilateral contracts between members of a society. It implies that each member promises all other members to make the maximum effort to avoid violating freedoms of other human beings, whether or not they are members of their society. Details of this social contract and its consequences are analyzed in the book “Society of Freedom”.
The social contract basically means that members make an effort to find actions that do not violate freedoms of others. When this is not possible, they choose options that violate the least valuable freedoms of others. This social contract is the fundamental contract that creates a Society of Freedom and is above any other laws. The entire society is built with a significant effort to satisfy this social contract.
The concept of social contract is not new. There have been many philosophers, thinkers, and writers who experimented with the concept, who suggested that implicit social contracts might exist in some human societies. However, as of today, there seems to exist no “explicit” social contracts in any of the human societies. Moreover, the social contract of a Society of Freedom is fundamentally different than the concept of social contract used by philosophers and thinkers. In other words, it can be claimed that there is no human society built upon a simple, clear, explicit social contract voluntarily accepted by each of its members.
Certainly, many human societies are built upon high level fundamental laws such as international laws and conventions, constitutions, and the Human Rights Declaration. However, none of these laws express a simple, higher level principle that can guide all the other laws that can be made. Although the analysis of these laws can reveal some simpler, high level principles, there is no evidence that these laws were made with such simpler principles in mind. In other words, when compared to the social contract of a Society of Freedom, they are unnecessarily detailed and complicated to function as a high level social contract.
Moreover, these laws do not represent bilateral contracts between individual human beings. In fact, most of these laws are only applicable to the actions of states, countries, governments and describe how governments will be formed and run. They presuppose the existence of a State that has or will have the authority and power over a group of human beings. By contrast, the social contract of a Society of Freedom represents bilateral contracts between human beings and is formed before the formation of any other organization such as State. Therefore, the social contract does not rely upon any authority or law enforcement; it relies upon the willingness of the people to avoid violating freedoms of other human beings.
When high level laws are made in countries, they are generally made by a “hypothetical general will” that represents the will of all the citizens of the country. Depending on the political system, many citizens of a country may not even know about these laws and/or may not agree with them. Even in the most democratic countries, highest level laws are made with a complicated representative system that relies on majority rules. This means that unless there is consensus among the citizens, some of them do not accept these laws even if the majority of the population and their governments accept them. This creates an important contrast between the social contract of a Society of Freedom and highest level laws of human societies. The social contract of a Society of Freedom is known, understood, and accepted by every single person, whereas the highest level laws of current countries in the world may not even be known by many of their citizens.
In summary, it can be safely said that no human society today is constructed upon a voluntarily accepted, explicit social contract although the concept has been known to humanity for a long time. Why did human beings not attempt to form a fundamental social contract?
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