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    It is not the case that A person with no natural moral constraints before the social contract will have equally no genuine moral constraints within civil society.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

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    • 1.If a person was free to commit any villainy before entering the contract, the same reasoning that permitted that villainy permits breaking the contract whenever the person sees fit.
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    • 2.Only the person's own word stands as a constraint, but that word is itself an instance of the same promise-keeping obligation that was already in question.
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    • 3.A natural knave has the same reason to be a civil knave.
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