Midterm practice #2

I don’t agree with Thomas Hobbes quote which states “fear [sic] of the law, are actions, which the doers had liberty to omit […].” Which means, if the people of the government fear it, they have only put it upon themselves because they had the liberty at one point to not participate being apart of it. What if children were born into a life controlled by the government? They wouldn’t know a life without it, and almost everything is controlled over. Therefore it would be impossible to find a true freedom. If some one bought a farm with acres and acres of land, they still had to pay for it an there are certain things that may go against the constitution because it isn’t truly yours.

On the other hand I do agree with Hobbes in saying “Liberty and Necessity are Consistent [. . .]. [B]ecause they proceed from their will, proceed from liberty; and yet, because every act of man’s [sic] will, and every desire, and inclination proceeds [sic] from some cause, and that from another cause, in a continual [sic] chain [sic], (whose first link in the hand of God the first of all causes,) they proceed from necessity.” When I read this part, I understood that liberty and necessity go together ,in a way that having freedoms will also create necessities. Man will find something they don’t have that will make it easier or better for them. This is an on-going process that makes liberty and necessity “consistent”. Farmers use to cut down and make stacks of hay by hand , then they found a way to make the job easier by creating tractors to do the job for them.