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    It is not the case that Humans cannot subsist alone and therefore require a social order.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Rousseau's 'natural man' in Discourse on Inequality was self-sufficient, solitary, and untroubled before social institutions corrupted him.
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    • 2.If the pre-social human condition was one of independence and contentment, then society is a contingent invention, not a biological necessity.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Thoreau's Walden experiment demonstrates that a reflective individual can meet material needs through deliberate withdrawal from social dependency.
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    • 2.If subsistence is achievable in structured solitude, the inference from biological need to required social order commits a non-sequitur by conflating minimal survival with complex political organization.
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    Reasons Against

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    • Humans cannot survive or thrive in isolation.
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