ABSTRACT
Jan Narveson argues that Hobbesian contractarian moral theory provides the necessary backbone for libertarian political theory. This chapter accounts the moral attitudes towards the social acceptance of non-libertarian policies from the vantage of an evolutionary-backed contractarian model. Libertarianism is not against charity; only coercion. A voluntary welfare system where no one pays who has not volunteered to pay is permissible under libertarianism. The Pareto principle works for libertarians only so long as one start with a conception of a baseline that precludes demands on helping; but the Pareto principle cannot itself is used to justify that baseline. Evoking Pareto superiority leads one to endorse Pareto optimality, the ideal state from which any unilateral movement will be Pareto inferior. The Pareto principle is too strong for contractarians. In the ultimatum game (UG), the Pareto principle recommends a non-cooperative venture. The UG, played in dyads, concerns a competition over a ten-piece pie.
