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Because mine is not a bare assertion and yours is. There have been Christian societies, and they were so successful that, even now, modern contractarians are dependent on Christian social capital even as they intellectually undermine it with their arguments. Also, animals are not capable of...

But see, there’s nothing wrong with the sociopath’s reasoning in principle, only in the realm of contingent facts. In principle, there’s nothing wrong with murder, rape, or any other crime because there’s no such thing as moral principles according to a contractarian theory of ethics. If you...

No, I don’t misunderstand anything. All the sociopath has to do is calculate that his self-interest would be best served not following those morals for contractarianism to fall apart. That’s always the lose condition for those types of “ethics” because it’s just a guide of achieving your goals...

David Gauthier? He seems to be pretty into contractarianism, which, as I've laid out in my philosophy essays, isn't actually an "ethics" of any kind, but a sort of non-aggression pact. A contractarian cannot tell a sociopath why they're morally wrong, only shrug and say "oh well, hope they don't...

And that's precisely where the logic of liberalism breaks down. You try to create a purely procedural legal order without any ordering towards a substantial good, and you end up having a substantial good anyways.