Imagine a merchant trying to sell a loaf of bread. If there is a disagreement between buyer and seller, they can either resolve the dispute with a price negotiation or go their separate ways. If the merchant tries to make an unfair trade via a technique such as price gouging, breaking the social contract results in negative consequences for the seller through the city's intervention. Likewise, if the buyer attempts to steal the bread without paying, then those negative consequences fall on the buyer.
Now let us envision a society where disagreements are settle through acts of strength. That such is their social contract. How can one fairly prevent unfair practices on either the seller or buyer side if whoever is strongest is the defining factor of what is right?
[ This probably also has nothing to do with Meridian not being able to enter the Greenwoods due to faction paranoia and a strawman argument, but oh how far away from the original point they've already come... ]
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Imagine a merchant trying to sell a loaf of bread. If there is a disagreement between buyer and seller, they can either resolve the dispute with a price negotiation or go their separate ways. If the merchant tries to make an unfair trade via a technique such as price gouging, breaking the social contract results in negative consequences for the seller through the city's intervention. Likewise, if the buyer attempts to steal the bread without paying, then those negative consequences fall on the buyer.
Now let us envision a society where disagreements are settle through acts of strength. That such is their social contract. How can one fairly prevent unfair practices on either the seller or buyer side if whoever is strongest is the defining factor of what is right?
[ This probably also has nothing to do with Meridian not being able to enter the Greenwoods due to faction paranoia and a strawman argument, but oh how far away from the original point they've already come... ]