ALT Part 1/2 of an SMBC comic update. A kid argues with his father, asking why does he have to clean his room. The father replies "because I said so and I have dominion over you." The kid asks "by what authority?!" The father explains "your life without me would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. You surrendered your natural rights to me in exchange for the benefits of civilization!" The kid retorts "there's no such state of nature! This is imagined history!" The father ends the discussion by stating "it is a tacit covenant restated every time I supply you chicken nuggies!"

ALT Part 2/2 of an SMBC comic update.The kid yells to an unseen parent "mom, dad's using a fictitious social contract to legitimize coercive authority!" The mom replies : "billy, your father and I are a single leviathan!"