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Unlikely. When the contractual change is sufficiently tolerable, society adapts and the idea of property rights morphs along with it. That's less expensive and demeaning than revolutions and collapse. It's an advantage compared to god's law, which is rather a bit harder to change than man's law.

When god's law changes, it classically means war, killing all the males above a certain age, marrying the women and girls off while changing their language and religion - i.e. cultural, and hence deity, decimation. So yeah, watch out for that one.



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