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What a young con artist tells us about our society

Our laws represent our values as a society. So say Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, who were very influential upon our Founding Fathers with their social contract theory.

According to the theory, the people enter into a contract with each other through which they give up certain of their own…