What if you make a deal, a contract, a covenant with another person? What of it? Does it make a difference if the agreement is implicit or explicit? What are the responsibilities of the people that have agreed to the contract? Beyond that, to what extent is the agreement to be respected by those who are not party to it?

When we talk from our logical or moral centers where we imagine ourselves to be the best possible manifestation of ourselves, I think that most people would tend to answer that once they have made an agreement that they will stick by the terms of that agreement until such time as it is re-negotiated or it's terms have expired whether it means paying back credit card debt, mowing your grandmother's lawn or remaining faithful to a partner.

However, it is only when faced with the immediate temptation of violating a contract without suffering any consequences that we truly know our own nature. Similarly we are shown our moral fiber when we are offered the opportunity to assist in breaking another person's contract, which we do not share a part in. Of course this is true only for those who subscribe to whatever social mores that we are assuming to be in place around the contract.

Just a few thoughts ramblings and rhetorical questions.