"Once this multitude is united this way into a body, an offense against one of its members is an offense against the body politic. It would be even less possible to injure the body without its members feeling it. Duty and interest thus equally require the two contracting parties to aid each other mutually. The individual people should be motivated from their double roles as individuals and members of the body, to combine all the …
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…in forming a society. Therefore, when called upon by one's government, the individual does have a moral obligation to risk their life for their country because they would be carrying out the terms of the social contract, a completely necessary agreement for any government. The very structure of our society, that we've worked so hard to build over the past 200 years, would collapse if we removed the base. Let us hope that this never happens.