It's a hot humid day in a far off Middle Eastern country. The loud bellowing sound of buyers and sellers echoes off the old brick and clay walls down the narrow market street. The smell of freshly cooked chicken lingers in the air and you briskly walk across town. But suddenly your peaceful afternoon at the local flea market turns into a horrid blend of terror and violence. The laughter of children and market goes turns into screams and panic as shots ring out. Bombs go off at every which corner as the local rebels rush into the streets to seize whatever food and supplies they can. The crops a farmer took months laboring over are thrown into the back of a truck. The blankets an elderly woman and her granddaughter made are tossed onto the backs of the mad gunman. Pots and vases a young boy slaved hours to make and stolen in an instance. But as quickly as it all happened, the confusion and disorientation of the entire ordeal is shattered with the piercing silence of what's left.
             The reason that these savage murders and crazed gunman acted in such a way is because of the simple characteristics of human nature. It is simply the way that man was born mentally that has allowed for such situations to occur. It is human nature that has put man at bay to his own desire for what he needs and for what he cannot have. When the rebels became hungry or where in need of supplies, they would simply just attack this poor unprotected market for all of its goods. According to the four philosophers Locke, Hobbes, Marx, and Machievelli, human nature and the power it possesses is kept in check through the use of government.
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             even though equality was amongst all, there was still the power for the weakest to over throw the strongest. This is why Locke insisted that the creation of ...