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and that's what gives rise to consent.
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Why not stay there? Why bother with government at all?
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Well, what is Locke's answer to that question?
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He says there are some inconveniences in the state of nature
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but what are those inconveniences?
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The main inconvenience is that everyone can enforce the law of nature.
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Everyone is an enforcer or what Locke calls
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"the executor"of the state of nature
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and he means executor literally.
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If someone violates the law of nature, he is an aggressor.
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He is beyond reason and you can punish him.
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And you don't have to be too careful or fine about