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    Individuals in the state of nature will engage in preempt... — Carmelics
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    Individuals in the state of nature will engage in preemptive attacks on one another.

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    • 1.Individuals are suspicious of one another.
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    • 2.Individuals are driven by fear of others.
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    • 3.Preemptive invasion of others ensures one's own safety.
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    • 1.Locke argues the state of nature is governed by natural law, which obliges individuals not to harm others without just cause.
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    • 2.Rational agents capable of recognizing preemptive attack as rational are equally capable of recognizing binding moral constraints on violence.
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    • 3.Hobbes's inference from fear to preemptive attack conflates a possible rational strategy with a necessary behavioral outcome.
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    • 1.Axelrod's iterated prisoner's dilemma research demonstrates that cooperative strategies outperform preemptive aggression across repeated interactions.
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    • 2.Individuals in the state of nature face repeated interactions with neighbors, making long-term cooperation instrumentally superior to preemptive attack.
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    One of the most widely known Hobbesian concepts is that of the anarchic state of nature, seen as entailing a state of war—and “such a war as is of every man against every man” (XII 8). He derives his notion of the state of war from his views of both human nature and the condition in which individuals exist. Since in the state of nature there is no government and everyone enjoys equal status, every individual has a right to everything; that is, there are no constraints on an individual’s behavior
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    Rational agents capable of recognizing preemptive attack as rational are equally...
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