 Second, Hayek (1944 [2007: 157–170]), Friedman (1962b [2017: 23]), and Buchanan (Buchanan and Tullock 1962) all deny that we should assume that people will tend to comply with what justice and the law requires. People go wrong, especially when they have too much power. As Friedman (1962b [2017: 23]) says, “the liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings” and assumes that organizing society is as much about “preventing ‘bad’ people from doing harm” as it is about helping others do good. Buchanan’s project is to theorize politics “without romance” and deny the feasibility of a contractarian agreement on principles of justice. If anything, compliance is an endogenous variable in their models of social order, where different sets of social rules will produce different levels of compliance and are to be chosen in part on that basis. In brief, compliance is never taken for granted. Their non-ideal theory is also associated with their opposition to socialisms of all kinds: socialism is irresponsible ideal theory whose purported feasibility rests entirely on the illicit assumption that human nature can be modified to make persons more rational and altruistic. Society will not work as socialists predict.