Contractual relationships erase prior claims. That is how they function so well in managing the chain of title. By managing chain of title, contracts serve well those societies that revolve around private property relations.
Contracts serve poorly such relations where prior claims cannot easily be erased. Those are the relations of the inalienable. Those are the eternal claims that cannot be foregone, even voluntarily. Those are the interactions that alter identity.
Choice lies on one pole and identity lies on another pole of interaction/relationship. The social contract is a vision of society based on contracts. That vision is blind to the eternal claims of creator and creature.
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