[kjvail]

Societies are cooperative ventures. Everyone has to compromise to a certain extent. We refrain from doing things we'd like to do, and do things we'd rather not, for the sake of the common good...That's a self-evident truth.

No, that's social contract theory. You do know there are other organizational philosophies of societies right?

Social contract is a recent development that fueled the godless blood bath of the French revolution not to mention communism and nazism.

That the GOP and National Review, Weekly Standard, American Spectator and other organs of the neo-con propoganda machine have adopted Jacobin philosophy has become glaring obvious.

we might ask what right the state has to demand that kids go to school.

Good question, care to take a crack at it without resorting to rhetoric that is indistinguishable from that of Vladamir Lenin or Chairman Mao?

[dsc]

"No, that's social contract theory."

No, that's just life on Planet Earth. That's the way free people act, when nobody is pointing a gun at their heads trying to force some "organizational philosophy" on them.

[GipperGal]

You do know there are other organizational philosophies of societies right?

What others are you suggesting. I'm not asking this in an accusatory tone. I'm genuinely interested in learning more. Please enlighten me.