Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes

An individual must always question the motives of authority, especially when it demands the resignation of your natural rights. By giving up your natural rights, you are simply facilitating a regime’s potential to become oppressive. Therefore, when natural rights cease to exist an individual is subjected into a state of vulnerability because their value within society is jeopardized. A human being no longer possesses the power to determine their own worth, instead the authoritative regime dictates your worth on the basis of beneficial one can be within society.

In the Leviathan text, Thomas Hobbes incorporates the notion which states that every individual is created equal. Therefore, if an individual is subjected into a dangerous environment,