After talking in class and reading some of your responses i have changed my mind partly. I still beilive some humans are dangerous and bad but when I look at the reasons hobbes gives us I cant help but feel like they have two sides. Like his example about speach, Yes it gives us an option to argue and cause problems but also it gives us the chance to resolve problems in a civilized way. We use talking and sepeach everyday to communicate problems and with this we are able to solve problems that without speech could leave to disaster.
Another example of this is Reason. The ability to reason may be bad at times but personally I think it works in our favor more then against. Being able to reason we can truely understand problems and situations. Now with out reason we could jump to conclusions and not truely understand the problem at hand and this could end in disaster.
I think the main thing Im trying to say is Hobbes examples could also be seen as good things we humans have that give us an advantage against animals. Yes his examples have there down sides but I truely beilive each one has an upside also. That is why I cant rule out humans yet as completely dangerious beasts who cant live together in peace .
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