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Thomas Hobbes famously described the state of Nature, the pre-state existence of individuals, as a life that is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". In treatises published in the 17th Century Hobbes described the daily existence of people, before states were created, as being in a perpetual state of “war of all, against all”.

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