How does the social contract evolve over time if every single person that doesn’t abide to it in its current form is ostracized? It doesn’t.
It’s not a literal contract. Tying theories about tolerance to it is more or less just saying “fuck it whatever”.
The paradox of tolerance is of course a real thing but this isn’t the solution. All it does is erode the principles necessary to even hold to the idea of tolerance in the first place.
Who writes the social contract? The in-group.
How does the social contract evolve over time if every single person that doesn’t abide to it in its current form is ostracized? It doesn’t.
It’s not a literal contract. Tying theories about tolerance to it is more or less just saying “fuck it whatever”.
The paradox of tolerance is of course a real thing but this isn’t the solution. All it does is erode the principles necessary to even hold to the idea of tolerance in the first place.