We’re simply never going to codify the social contract. Not only is it incredibly complex and situational, it’s also constantly changing - something that’s acceptable today might very well be seen as unacceptable in just a few years. The contract isn’t - nor should it be - pinned down; it’s just made up of any given community’s current feelings of what’s acceptable and what’s not. People’s feelings toward social interactions shift far too quickly for bureaucracy to keep up. It’s disappointing that it means some people will constantly be playing catch-up if they’re not able to easily and inherently understand the current contract, but even if we wrote out some “rules” that people were meant to follow, they wouldn’t.
That’s the thing about the current social contract - people only generally follow the rules now because they make inherent sense that comes naturally to them, which is why we have the problem of people not following them if they personally feel like they don’t make sense. However, if we tried to force it, all we’d get is even fewer people following the contract - unless you wanted to put actual laws in place to punish those who don’t, but then you’re getting into some shady governmental practices. It’s generally better to let society itself deal with those ne’er-do-wells, shunning them into either compliance or exile, like this comic is helping to do.
Our current social contract isn’t great, but I don’t honestly believe there is a better way of getting 8 billion people to functionally interact with one another.
I meant it needs to be written down again in a similar way that Hobbes Locke and Rousseau did once before.
We need enough people to be thinking about it with fresh eyes of this modern world.
You are absolutely correct it cant be codified like it’s a set of rules or something.
I just believe that if there is a critical mass of people re-evaluating the concept, either because the world has changed enough that in a large part due to modern technology having got to a point we are invested online often more than offline.
And going back to what you were saying, different people will have a different experience so they will not have the same needs or considerations. I think this connection to ground level communities almost anywhere in the world means we need to update our tools to understand our place and the consquences of our actions.
And it’s an amazing accomplishment. But we need to keep it amazing by his we choose to use it and what we want to do with it and the people we cross here.
Ah, I get what you’re saying now. Yeah, we definitely need more people thinking about how we interact as a community, especially considering how well-connected we are these days. Whether or not any individual would really be able to have a significant impact on society as a whole is unclear, but at the very least having ideas for how we can process all of the information that we’re now being bombarded with would be good for combating our ongoing mental health crisis.
We’re simply never going to codify the social contract. Not only is it incredibly complex and situational, it’s also constantly changing - something that’s acceptable today might very well be seen as unacceptable in just a few years. The contract isn’t - nor should it be - pinned down; it’s just made up of any given community’s current feelings of what’s acceptable and what’s not. People’s feelings toward social interactions shift far too quickly for bureaucracy to keep up. It’s disappointing that it means some people will constantly be playing catch-up if they’re not able to easily and inherently understand the current contract, but even if we wrote out some “rules” that people were meant to follow, they wouldn’t.
That’s the thing about the current social contract - people only generally follow the rules now because they make inherent sense that comes naturally to them, which is why we have the problem of people not following them if they personally feel like they don’t make sense. However, if we tried to force it, all we’d get is even fewer people following the contract - unless you wanted to put actual laws in place to punish those who don’t, but then you’re getting into some shady governmental practices. It’s generally better to let society itself deal with those ne’er-do-wells, shunning them into either compliance or exile, like this comic is helping to do.
Our current social contract isn’t great, but I don’t honestly believe there is a better way of getting 8 billion people to functionally interact with one another.
Sorry my bad.
I meant it needs to be written down again in a similar way that Hobbes Locke and Rousseau did once before.
We need enough people to be thinking about it with fresh eyes of this modern world.
You are absolutely correct it cant be codified like it’s a set of rules or something.
I just believe that if there is a critical mass of people re-evaluating the concept, either because the world has changed enough that in a large part due to modern technology having got to a point we are invested online often more than offline.
And going back to what you were saying, different people will have a different experience so they will not have the same needs or considerations. I think this connection to ground level communities almost anywhere in the world means we need to update our tools to understand our place and the consquences of our actions.
And it’s an amazing accomplishment. But we need to keep it amazing by his we choose to use it and what we want to do with it and the people we cross here.
Ah, I get what you’re saying now. Yeah, we definitely need more people thinking about how we interact as a community, especially considering how well-connected we are these days. Whether or not any individual would really be able to have a significant impact on society as a whole is unclear, but at the very least having ideas for how we can process all of the information that we’re now being bombarded with would be good for combating our ongoing mental health crisis.