What is this society thing, that it needs holding together? Why does it need more than day-to-day reciprocity - which worked reasonably well for hundreds of thousands of years?
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we need to choose, collectively, a set of rules and keep to it.
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What trace is there of 'our' ever having done that? The social contract is pure invention (as Hobbes was aware). In fact, our assent is assumed, even if we know nothing of the rules (ignorance is no defence). The rules appear as 'social facts' - both 'moral rules' and 'legal rules'. In most cases, they favour some and disfavour others. The few? The many?