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Why the State of Nature Fails

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Four features doom the state of nature: equal vulnerability, scarce goods, limited concern for strangers, and no power to enforce a bargain.

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Two families claim one well. Neither can overpower the other for long, neither dares trust first, and no one referees. The well becomes a battlefield.