8:3<\/p>\n
There are many kinds of contracts: moral, legal, social, implied, even hidden or unacknowledged contracts. Most of what makes a society is based on contracts of one sort or another. But like many things relating to human interactions, the problem with contracts comes when we acknowledge them and then try to quantify, classify and administer them.<\/p>\n
A simple social contract between father and son can and will continue to have the possibility of becoming a force for destruction and pain; yet across the span of human society it has done more good than harm in providing for the care and nurture of family, for the continuation of hard-won skills and expensive knowledge. But the possibility of pain remains, and as a society progresses toward understanding and enlightenment it is inevitable that we will turn our eyes to examining and deconstructing those contracts that form it.<\/p>\n
But the scope of human perception can encompass the infinite. The variations and possibilities that exist in even the sparest of agreements seem simple and easily examined, recorded and enforced. And yet the youngest child, having traded away his favourite card or shared his treat and found himself feeling something lacking, has learned that agreements can never encompass all potentialities. The humanness of the participants will forever overshadow the materiality of the written or spoken agreement. Over such things wars have been fought and destruction beyond our ability to comprehend has resulted.<\/p>\n
But still we continue to trust in the courts and such society-appointed arbiters of human conflict to help steer our way through these self-inflicted limitations. Faith in the material overshadows faith in the individual and in the cause of seeking fairness and equity we continue to foster strife and sow doubt.<\/p>\n
Such is the nature of human constructs.<\/p>\n
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