Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
No myth. You live it every day. Synonyms for contract include arrangement, understanding and compact. So if you don't like social contract, you can use arrangement by which we live. However you describe it, it is. It can be as simple as following the rules of courtesy or as complicated at riparian law, but it is and you and I live by it.

Your question should more properly be, what in Switzerland is worth fighting the Swiss to get it.?
Your synonyms are different forms of the same myth. In the US at least only naturalized citizens every make something like the agreement required to give the government any legitimate limitation of your freedom in a politic system that takes rights as primitive, meaning without antecedent causality for their existence. For the rest of us, it might be a verbal contract that is only as good as the paper on which it is printed.