Social Contract
People come together for safety and protection. They say there is safety in numbers. But what makes those numbers safe when in a different kind of context those numbers would be at war with one another? Is it morality or is it law that keeps you from stealing from your neighbor or killing your enemy? Idealistically you would probably like to say morality. The issue with pro-morality humanism is that while everyone has a capacity for good, not everyone intuitively acts on that goodness. We’re all sinners and to think that we can overrule our inclination to be evil at times to benefit someone else over ourselves in the state of nature is naive.
If a person could be naturally trusted not to infringe on the liberties of another, there would be no group because everyone would respect each other. A group is created because people in a state of survival can’t be trusted to do the right thing towards someone else. A group creates safety, asabiyyah perpetuates the group, and asabiyyah is created through cooperation and contribution. But what keeps the group unified/what governs asabiyyah? Every society has mechanisms that make that society what it is. When you buy into those mechanisms and contribute to them you cultivate group cohesion. The contributing factors to group cohesiveness can be different from society to society, but what they are is a social contract.
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