"Why should I obey the laws?" "Because you'll be punished if you don't." "Assume for the moment that I expect to get away with a particular violation. Or that the odds are fairly good and I am willing to run the risk of capture. Should I obey the law anyway? And, if so, why?" "You should obey the law, because in doing so you abide by the social contract." "Show me that contract and my signature thereon." "If your signature were on it, it would be a contract without adjective. The social contract is only implicit." "From what is it implied?" "From the fact that you use the roads." "Roads could be privately constructed and run." "Yes, but they usually aren't, and you use them." "So a government deserves my allegiance because it can create and in fact monopolize certain necessary avenues of transportation and because I am so unfortunate as to use t...