Hobbes View

I like Devon's ideas of real life situations that would pertain to Hobbes's view such as the Presidential Races, and going off of that, I do agree with Hobbes's view on human nature. I believe that what Hobbes's hidden message was, is that humans as a race are far more advanced biologically, as well as physically than species such as ants and bees. Humans are given the ability of speech, as well as reasoning, Humans also have the ability to focus on who has the most power because the human race is doing well. Now say that the human race was not doing well, people would sacrifice to help out the community. However since the race is well off and dominant over other all other species due to technology, they have time to focus on such things as materials and power as well as competing for their own honor and dignity like Hobbes stated in his 1st reason. Unless the human race is destroyed, no other species will ever be able to advance on the same level as humans, so they will always never have to fear about survival in the wild. Now people turn to see who can be the most dominant human, the next best thing since they achieved the most dominant species. That is why I believe Hobbes was correct in stating that humans cannot live sociably in nature.