priority to fellow citizens

The question in chapter 4 is whether or not our autonomy will get in the way of our equally important bond with our society. THe reason Dagger brings this up is he points out that we tend to place a high importance on somethings and then shun and down play other things that may very well be equally important. So in looking at this he wants to see how autonomy may effect community unity. We first run into the issue of what we hold as a criteria for our community. He wants to not really deal with this argument because of its complexity so he starts with saying that we are just dealing with people that we agree share citizenship with us. How does this bond of citizenship effect our stance on human rights with autonomy as the base is then turned into the question of whether it makes sense to put any special weight on our community over others. Dagger looks at several ways that fail to come to the conclusion that the only way to look at this bond and still hold that our community has more weight than others is to view our relationship as a citizen in a way that is consistent with social contract theory. Social contract theory says that society is viewed in a way as having each citizen in a freely agreed upon bond that explains the obligations and rewards we have in society. With this in mind this can mean that when looking to see where to propagate autonomy and other rights that we should first look to our society all things being equal because we must contribute to the benefit of public goods in our society in exchange for the rewards we receive through being a member.