I disagree. I think it is possible to live with someone else and have all your needs met.
I didn't say it wasn't possible to have your needs met in a relationship. I said having (implied
nly) your needs met every moment of every day. For example: This would mean: If I was in a relationship that at the exact moment, regardless of how the other person felt or was doing that if I wanted sex, they would give it to me but only in the way I wanted to have it.
But you have to be able to believe that other people care as much about your life as you do.
You make the assumption that the Other is capable of "caring" about your life in the EXACT SAME manner as you would, which is a fallacy. I am not you, you are not me.
If you don't care about others' lives as much as your own, by nature, then over time you might learn to value others' lives, or without the social contract it is true, many things would seem to be in chaos.
What?
But at least everyone would be free to make their own mistakes, and those who innately care for others may be able to teach others how to be the same.
Everyone is already free to make their own mistakes. How are people not free to make their own mistakes? There are those who innately care for others? "Innately care for others"? What they come out of the womb able to care for others? Or is this ability to "care" a learned behavior by being socialized? Seems like a high handed statement to masturbate one's ego.
It would be chaos, at first, and perhaps deadly for many.
But everyone would be completely free and have their own opportunities for personal growth, rather than being born into a society which tells them there is a right and wrong way to behave yet always manages to contradict itself.
But isn't change a normal part of growth? Wouldn't society in general have the capacity to change. We aren't talking about a static system of rules/laws/norms.
The social contract teaches people to pretend they have ideals or morals until they no longer feel threatened by anyone else, at which point they can relish their own power and it becomes clear that throughout their lifetime they have leaned nothing of true worth.
People only pretend to have ideals and morals because they don't want to be threatened by others? It sounds pretty in a "rah rah" kinda way but this doesn't mean anything.