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So what is a 'desirable' state?
Something other than the natural one of brutality and warfare.
So what is a 'desirable' state?
Freedom is not the natural state of individuals. The natural state of individuals is in no way, shape, or form a desirable state.
Freedom is not the natural state of individuals. The natural state of individuals is in no way, shape, or form a desirable state.
Of course it is. Why are you a totalitarian?
Why are you a naive fool?
If you think that people spontaneously organize into happyland in absence of government, go to Somalia.
The somalian thugs are not different than our totalitarian thugs.
Beginning from a mechanistic understanding of human beings and the passions, Hobbes postulates what life would be like without government, a condition which he calls the state of nature. In that state, each person would have a right, or license, to everything in the world. This inevitably leads to conflict, a "war of all against all" (bellum omnium contra omnes), and thus lives that are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (xiii).
Life is brutish and nasty. Modern societies are just a case of an elite denying the rest of us our own rights to use force. It's not more noble, or that different from "nature".
Hobbes is a moron.
You have no right to use force. Actively denying people that "right" results in a considerable decrease in overall conflict.
So what is a 'desirable' state?
A 'desirable state' is a state to which one aspires but has not achieved and is probably different for each person.
ipso facto the term cannot be used in objective argument anymore than the term 'freedom' can.
good point
You have no right to use force. Actively denying people that "right" results in a considerable decrease in overall conflict.
It's not a good point. It's gay.
Reasonable societies ask for the consent of the governed. If people are governed by force, it's not better that just being victimized by a giant assraping gorilla.
no, you're gay
it is subjective....it doesn't take a genius to look around at the many forms of government that are chosen by the people to see that the terms are in fact subjective.....