My teacher, an a few others, have used the same example as to ones life in the state of nature.... (which is solitary, nasty, brutish and short and exists in the absence of politics)... If two people find a basket of apples to eat, there is no agreement or division or compromise, your best interest is simply to kill the other person and take the apples. The only thing I could think? "Really? I'd let him eat the apples, get really well fed, and then stalk and eat him." Huh. Guess I'd do okay in the state of nature.
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Oh, I like you...
...please don't kill me and eat me. Although, I'm pretty skinny, and likely not worth the metabolic effort it would take to kill and eat me.
...that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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