Does Hobbes’ theory of a social contract provide a convincing reason for always obeying the law?
Look the social contract is essentially that government only has authority over the people because it promise to serve the people and to protect us from evils from without and from within and to be just. Once government breaks its promise……literally the people are no longer obligated to listen to that government. That being said, no govt will willingly cede power..especially a corrupt one that works to serve a very few. Eventually there is bound to be violence if the people’s will cannot be asserted in a peaceful way.
