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    Individuals in the state of nature will invade one anothe... — Carmelics
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    Individuals in the state of nature will invade one another for gain.

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    • 1.Individuals are driven by acquisitiveness.
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    • 2.Individuals have no moral restraints in the state of nature.
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    • 3.Individuals are motivated to compete for scarce goods.
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    • 1.Hobbes conflates competitive disposition with inevitable aggression, but scarcity alone does not necessitate invasion when cooperation yields superior outcomes.
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    • 2.Game-theoretic analysis (Axelrod) demonstrates that rational agents in iterated interactions converge on cooperative strategies even without sovereign enforcement.
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    • 3.The state of nature is not a singular moment but a dynamic condition in which reputational incentives constrain predatory behavior among recurring actors.
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    • 1.Locke argues that natural law, discoverable by reason, imposes binding obligations against aggression even prior to civil society, making invasion a violation rather than a default.
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    • 2.The claim assumes acquisitiveness exhausts human motivation, ignoring Hutcheson and Hume's evidence that sympathy and fellow-feeling are equally natural and constrain self-interest.
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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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