I understand the 'notion' of social contract. However I choose not to accept the terms of the contract as envisioned by above. A key element of 'contract' is consent.
Then you must move out to someplace else that you wish to consent to or forge your own social contract which will require force unless you find un-inhabited unclaimed land.
By staying within the bounds of a country you are consenting to its laws or are considered a criminal or foreign aggressor.
How about you move. It's hilarious to suggest the contract is still intact when the government violates the contract itself, such as abridging 4th and 2nd amendment rights, rendering the contract void. Just a few months ago, I had a warrant served where a homeland security official lied and said a drug dog had "alerted on my buttocks" and I was forcefully strip-searched and dragged to a hospital to be "internally examined." Sorry the government themselves violated the contract.
And it's worth noting, even though the "contract" legitimize this, the last president didn't even have the assent of the majority of voters.
>By staying within the bounds of a country you are consenting to its laws or are considered a criminal or foreign aggressor.
I'm not too worried about whatever ad-hominem you'd like to label.
>Note since you are US citizen you still benefit from their social service while living abroad, the are many protections upheld to US citizens traveling abroad you would no longer have if you renounce.
This is so hilarious as to make me wonder if you've ever actually been to a US consulate abroad. I have, against my wishes due to riding in the same taxi with a 'friend.' We had both overstayed our visas, and the consular services basically said "lol get fucked, good luck!" I could have obtained the same services talking to a wall. I'm good on their services.
>Exactly, you must pay your final rent payment and get out, no one is forcing you to stay. I
If I've already "gotten out" including paying my taxes this rent analogy makes even less sense, not that it was a good one to begin with. I never signed a contract saying if I leave the non-existent contract I agree to pay $2000 to back out.
> you don't have to defend your property and life through force on a daily basis
I wonder if you've even been to the United States? It was not so long ago someone tried to rob me at gunpoint. I still have a scar from fighting back. On a daily basis, people are violently assaulted in my city. Nowadays I'm forced to have "protection" that I have daily in case someone tries to use lethal force against me again. The police have no legal duty to "defend" you per the supreme court. The type of protection police provide here, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
As for military protection, I actually have fought as a self-funded volunteer in a foreign militia (YPG) against ISIS, so I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is about not using tax money to defend life.
>However while you are there you must fund the services they are currently providing to you
You don't get to just provide services for someone, who never agreed to it, and then demand payment. Payment for services is predicated on the parties consenting to the transaction. Providing service without the other party agreeing is charity at best, unwelcome intrusion at worst.
>no one is forcing you to stay
Except some people have had their passports revoked, and occasionally without even owing anyone anything ("for national security reasons.") In fact DHS has threatened to revoke my passport before, despite not breaking any law. It is a crime to leave the US without a passport. So the US does 'force' some people to stay.
>People are social animals, they work together to solve problems no individual could on their own, money facilitates this and is needed to fund the large social framework
People are capable of doing this in a consensual manner. In fact many businesses operate on this principle of consensual mutual benefit.
>You may not like it but that doesn't matter because others will form large groups and impose it on you regardless and you will have no choice over its form.
Back to your contradictory argument of "no one is forcing you at gunpoint" -- except you reneg and say actually they are.
People like the GP reject the notion of social contract.