Social Contract

Look up "contract" (all parts of speech) in the dictionary of your choice. Citing your source on the blog, explain in a POST what you understand the essence of a contract to be – what's essential to it – and then posit you own "social contract." If people interact according to a certain set of rules (moral, philosophical, selfish, whatever), what do those rules look like. Strive for realism rather than idealism in your definition of a social contract – how does the world actually work and how can people be expected to behave?
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A contract is a legal or binding agreement multiple persons enter into, sometimes written.

The basis of a contract is a mutual agreement to act in a certain way or do a certain thing, between multiple, people, usually acknowledged but not always. First off, one of the most important things needed in a contract is multiple people. You can make agreements with yourself, but they tend to be far easier to understand and make more sense in general when they involve other people. We sometimes make social contracts with what seems like ourselves, but is really involving other people, such as things like the unspoken rules that you try to sit with your friends at lunch, don't sit at tables controlled by those from other grades, and not flipping out at people senior to you when they cut in the lunch line (as you can see, the cafeteria is fraught with unspoken agreements and rules between everyone).

In a social contract, the agreement is generally about how to try to behave in society, like my examples above. These kind of contracts are very unofficial and often broken, whether intentionally or not. In a social contract you are "required" to act a certain way, however by not doing so, rather than getting in trouble with the law, you are usually simply frowned upon or viewed less highly.