If a punishment of breaking a contract was death, would a rational person ever enter into such a contract? I've been thinking about this recently because an Islamic tenet is that apostasy's punishment is death.
The US social contract has death as an available punishment; certain criminal actions in Texas could lead to your death. All US citizens live under this contract. One could argue, however, that this punishment is a feature of the natural contract between all people and further restrictions on the right of life is not rational. I mean Locke's "state of nature" contract when I say natural contract.
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Death to Lairs! and cheaters!
I think that death is a totally reasonable for breaking some contracts.
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