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Originally Posted by Nodrog
A given person cannot change laws. Social institutions will always preexist individuals , and generally change in response to cultural inertia rather than through the will of any particular person. From a practical standpoint, I can no more alter social laws that I can alter the law of gravity. The social facts existing at any given time period should, when deciding on day-to-day strategy, be taken as metaphysically given, with the responses to them chosen accordingly.
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I don't think anybody is suggesting that a single individual is or should be able to reorder a society without assistance. In this respect your comparison with gravity is beside the point; in general implication it is misleading.
Why treat social facts as
metaphysically given?