I also agree that people are unable to coexist in the state of nature because of their natural impulse to compete and form a “pecking order,” the envy that is developed around that pecking order and our more complex abilities than “irrational creatures.” People naturally form an order which is settled by war or great chaos, but when a leader is picked the competition goes away because an order is now given to them and structure is created. With structure, people become less hostile, due to that they no longer need to be in order to achieve success.
The envy is caused by someone else's higher position, when in the natural state. When there is a leader and structure, such as in our society people are given a fair and structured way to compete. I think that competition is not bad when it is structured. However, to have structure there must be a leader.
A leader must also be assign structure to our complex emotions to keep them at bay. Without a leader man will be at ease and without fear, so there will be nothing from stopping them from contributing to chaos and causing the state of the community to get exponentially worse as people learn that there are no consequences.
I agree that there needs to be a leader providing structure, but I also think that Hobbes was right in his thoughts of interacting with people as well.
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