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And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their End, . . . endeavor to destroy, or subdue one another. [Hence, life in the state of nature is] . . . nasty, brutish, and short.Hobbes calls life in the state of nature "nasty, brutish, and short," because
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