Blog #14

Yes I believe Hobbes is right that a state of nature would be a state of war.  In a state of nature people would be free to do whatever they pleased without any government rules or regulations holding them back, they would have unlimited rights.  This would cause complete chaos everyone would live in fear.  Not the fear of being punished for their actions but in fear of death or getting beat up.  If there were no government people would fight with each other over everything and they would not stop until they get everything they want.  This is completely impossible because not everyone can get what they want so it would be a non-stop struggle between the people.  People are driven by their desires, and their desires are pretty much unlimited they never end, so people driven by these desires will fight with each other if left in this state of nature.  So obviously people would not like to live in fear so they want peace and in order to have peace we would have to be out of a state of nature and we would do this by implementing a government of some sort to regulate the people with laws and such.  We would need to limit the people’s rights.