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The State of Nature

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The state of nature is a thought experiment: imagine human life with no government at all, to reveal what government is for.

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Like removing a load-bearing wall on paper first—what collapses shows what the wall was holding.

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It is a modeling device, not a history lesson—its authors knew there was no founding meeting.