Bodywithoutorgans18 t1_j79341o wrote
Reply to comment by VitriolicViolet in There Are No Natural Rights (without Natural Law): Addressing what rights are, how we create rights, and where rights come from by contractualist
>its legitimacy is recursive (its legit because enough people say it is)
It is recursive down to a group level and not an individual level though, which makes it stronger than other things that are recursive. "The State" can be recursive down to an individual level, anarchy exists for example. Even within pure anarchy though, there is still some sort of implied social contract.
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