Of Commonwealth

      Siding with Jason, Tommy and Colby, I agree with Thomas Hobbes about his opinion on humans- they are dangerous when not controlled. Hobbes states six reasons why he believes this and if I wasn't convinced enough before I read this excerpt, I sure am now. I believe it is human nature for people to be constantly one-upping each other- competition, as Hobbes calls it. Survival of the fittest is built into our genes and because of this we always want to be the best, no matter what it is we're trying to be the best at. The difference between survival of the fittest in humans and survival of the fittest in bees and ants is that the latter insects try to be the best for the benefit of their whole colony, while people try to be the best not for the overall benefit of the state, but for the benefit of themselves individually. As Hobbes points out, all of this competition between people isn't exactly healthy for the well-being of the whole group/state/commonwealth/whatever you want to call human beings collectively. In fact, it tears people apart by creating  hatred and envy.
      There are five other things listed in Of Commonwealth about why humans cannot live peacefully in a state of nature, but hey, I just talked about one and I'm already convinced they can't! To save my peers from reading an unnecessarily long blog post and to make sure I have something to talk about in my other two posts, I'll stop here. Just to reiterate a bit in case you forgot, I completely believe human are dangerous creatures by nature and need to be controlled in order to live with each other peacefully.