Meredith Shiner's Feb. 4 column, "The broken K-Ville Contract," misleadingly only selects the social contract theories that support her argument that she was harmed by the line monitors as a result of the poor execution of white tenting registration.
If she had consulted the wise Thomas Hobbes, she would have reached a different conclusion, learning how lucky she was to escape a potentially nasty and brutish Krzyzewskiville by ceding power to the line monitors, a collective Leviathan, who could keep the Cameron Crazies under control. The only way to prevent devolution into chaos would be to give the line monitors complete authority over K-ville, allowing them to commit iniquities even if they don't make Shiner happy.
Josh Parker
Trinity '09
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