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Should Hobbes Have Rebelled?
Hobbes would argue that the insurgents should not have rebelled, that they have no right that they deserve whatever punishment the Sovereign wants to give them. Hobbes would have said that if it was not for the rebels, the Sovereign would have been able to fight the Islamic State when they first started. After defeating this other Commonwealth, the Islamic State, the Syrian government could have worked to improve the situation for all its subjects. But now that the Commonwealth is in a State of War, the State of Nature exist and the Commonwealth known as Syria is no more. People will eventually want peace and this is when they are going to decide to create a new Commonwealth and choose a new Sovereign. Hobbes would argue that Monarchy would

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