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skeledrewyesterday at 3:50 PM1 replyview on HN

A social contract still has to be explicit in some way to be considered such. Otherwise it's just an accepted convention.


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jhbadgertoday at 2:39 AM

That's not what a social contract is you are thinking of a legal contract, something very different. A social contract is by definition, implicit rather than explicit.