I feel like the western stuff is more ideological and less rooted in social experience -- but of course ideology can be important.
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In the Hobbesian social contract, the right to life trumps all. The state's first duty is to protect the lives of its subjects, and the one grounds for a subject refusing the command of the state is the protection of your life.
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Remember that Hobbes' argument for the equality of human beings is that every person has the power to take the life of another. The legacy of slavery is important, because it denies the humanity of the enslaved, and puts them outside of the social contract.
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