The logic of Prisoner’s Dilemmas and Public Goods undermines anarchism and radical libertarianism, despite the eternal appeal of unfettered freedom. The logic makes it rational to say, “There ought to be a law against what I’m doing.” As Thomas Hobbes put it, the fundamental principle of society is “that a man be willing, when others are so too . . . to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”22 This social contract does not just embody the moral logic of impartiality. It also removes wicked
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