Social Contract Theory

Hobbes Social Contract theory, shows us that the existence of a government is definitly required because, that is the only way to get away from the “State of Nature”. Living in the State of Nature is usually the worst thing for a man, because he is constant fear, and battle. This is because people inclination is to survive and protect their valuables or hoard of supplies. But the only way to stray away from the “State of Nature” is to come to an agreement with all your members to evenly distribute work to produce food, build shelter, and convince people to learn to trust each other, and lower the fear between the people. Once people develop a sense of trust they set rules and regulations that they must follow, for that environment. Once the rules are laid out people learn to accept these values, and start implementing it in their lifestyle. Once this happens the contractors work together to industrialize, import and export food products etc. Soon they go from being barbaric with no sense of Moral to a Society with rules and regulations which morality arises through. They Learned that instead of fighting each other to get scarce food, they should work together and create mass produce. As long as everyone is willing Burden themselves a little bit, for a better, longer, and safer life.