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And Locke observes that when people are the judges of their own cases,
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they tend to get carried away,
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and this gives rise to the inconvenience in the state of nature.
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People overshoot the mark. There is aggression.
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There is punishment and before you know it,
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everybody is insecure in the enjoyment of his or her
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unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.
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Now, he describes in pretty harsh and even grim terms
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what you can do to people who violate the law of nature.
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"One may destroy a man who makes war upon him ...
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for the same reason that he may kill a wolf or a lion.
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Such men have no other rule, but that of force and violence,"