![]() ![]() Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man’s person, makes a state of war, both where there is, and is not, a common judge. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Under Locke by Mariana Zapata. Thus a thief, whom I cannot harm, but by appeal to the law, for having stolen all that I am worth, I may kill, when he sets on me to rob me but of my horse or coat because the law, which was made for my preservation, where it cannot interpose to secure my life from present force, which, if lost, is capable of no reparation, permits me my own defence, and the right of war, a liberty to kill the aggressor, because the aggressor allows not time to appeal to our common judge, nor the decision of the law, for remedy in a case where the mischief may be irreparable. ![]() Worst case scenario: If things turned awkward between us, I could go somewhere else. But he was everything that gripped me, both the good and the bad. But force, or a declared design of force, upon the person of another, where there is no common superior on earth to appeal to for relief, is the state of war: and it is the want of such an appeal gives a man the right of war even against an aggressor, tho’ he be in society and a fellow subject. He was my boss, my brother's friend, a widow, an ex-felon, and a man I'd seen casually with a handful of women. ![]()
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