Tag: Social Contract
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The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
International law upholds, in theory, a separate, impersonal moral code. Yet its constraints are routinely bypassed, its indictments flouted. Other categories of moral imperative, such as a binding sense of civic duty and societal responsibility, are also eroding in a polarised age. Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian idea that what is moral is determined by how much…
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War by Other Means – by Palladium Editors
If this trend toward substituting machines for human labor on the battlefield continues, the source of coercive capacity and the vector of political upheaval will correspondingly continue to shift away from labor and toward capital. Once the sovereign can rule the citizenry without needing to co-opt their coercive capacity, relying instead on corporate persons, the…