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    Interdependent individuals would consent to the establish... — Carmelics
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    Interdependent individuals would consent to the establishment of state authority and law.

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    • 1.Interdependence among individuals produces endemic conflict.
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    • 2.This conflict creates Hobbesian insecurity.
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    • 3.Fear of Hobbesian insecurity leads all individuals to consent to state authority to escape it.
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    • 1.Hume argues that consent to political authority is largely fictitious, as most subjects never actually consent but are born into existing states.
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    • 2.Tacit consent theories (Locke notwithstanding) conflate mere residence or non-emigration with genuine voluntary agreement.
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    • 3.Without actual consent, the social contract describes hypothetical rational acceptance, not a normatively binding political obligation.
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    • 1.Anarchist thinkers like Kropotkin demonstrate that interdependent communities historically resolved conflict through mutual aid without centralized state authority.
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    • 2.The inference from endemic conflict to state authority commits a false dilemma by excluding non-state institutions as conflict-resolving mechanisms.
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    In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to answer what he takes to be the fundamental question of politics, the reconciliation of the freedom of the individual with the authority of the state. This reconciliation is necessary because human society has evolved to a point where individuals can no longer supply their needs through their own unaided efforts, but rather must depend on the co-operation of others. The process whereby human needs expand and interdependence deepens is set out in the Di
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