 So the question is what Hobbs would say with a prisoner's dilemma? What would he tell you to do? Now just to do a quick review, right? You are traveling in a country You're arrested for a bank robbery They say they don't really care if you did or did not somebody's going to jail They've arrested you and somebody else who you do not know do not communicate with and they've given you a deal You can either confess an accused or you can stay silent If you confess an accused and the other person stays silent you go free They go to jail for 10 years if you stay silent that they confess you go to jail for 10 years They go free if you both confess an accused you get five years each and if you both stay silent you get one year each When you look at the options no matter what the other person does the consequence that is better for you is to confess an accused So it sure looks like You should confess an accused therefore easy-peasy right ox says you should confess an accused But notice Look if everybody's doing the same thing and if you're being rational in this sense if you're only looking out for yourself in this sense You are both going to go to jail for five years Whereas if you both work together If you give up somebody writes if you don't look out for yourself first The consequences are better for you collectively So long probably would say you know maybe the single instance of the prisoner's dilemma He'd say okay, maybe I guess go ahead and confess an accused But if both people are doing that you're both going to go to jail for five years Instead of thinking out only for yourself. You should think about cooperating So Hobbes would say cooperate Now one of the reasons for thinking this is to take a look at the state of nature And you have a choice you can either act as if you are in the state of nature Or you can act and join the social contract If you decide to stay in the state of nature and the other person decides to stay in the social contract Well, then yeah, I mean that kind of looks cool You get to keep all your rights and you know more than likely the person life ends Because you know you just only have to look out for yourself On the other hand if you stay in the social contract and other people decide to stay in the state of nature Well, they get to keep all their rights in your life ends hmm Now if everybody Engaged in stays in the state of nature. Well, that's war Remember relaxed at war. You know the very least your life is threatened and if everybody Stays in the social contract and acts according to the social contract and you stay alive and Again kind of like the prisoner's dilemma. What you know, what's your choice? Suppose the other side and everybody else decides to stay in the state of nature. Well, which consequences better for you? Well, not a consequence is really great I mean it's a consequence between life threatened and life ends but at least with life threatened I guess maybe you have a fighting chance that kind of seems better Similarly if they stay if they act according to the social contract What's the better consequence for you keeping all your rights are just merely staying alive? Well, it kind of looks like keeping all your rights is better than just merely staying alive because hey get to look out for your aren't interest first So kind so like what the prison looks like well no matter what the other side is doing it looks like you ought to stay in the state of nature But if everybody does that it's war It's war. You cannot think merely about your own interests Right your interest the most important that in order to protect your interest Everybody if you make a choice somebody else can make that same choice. Well Sure looks like you got to enter the social contract and stay in the social contract for the sake of protecting your own life Yes, you're giving up rights But your life is important and you have to protect it So with the state of nature, you know like the prison dilemma the state of nature leave the state of nature into the social contract Because you're just not smart enough not powerful enough to be able to dominate everybody else Now this conclusion has repercussions on our behavior Hobbes calls the person who enters the social contract and violates it a fool The reason why this person is a fool is because these are the circumstances that are going to protect your own life and In violating these circumstances those who've agreed to you think you're going to be able to get away with it But the reason why you entered the social contract to begin with is because you are not smart enough You're not strong enough to get away with it. Now glaucoma may talk about a magic ring But you don't have one no one has a magic ring But some people and maybe even you act as if you do I mean you tell me whether this seems familiar you got a long line of cars trying to get into the exit ramp and It's not going very fast It's usually always that one person in the back who just decides to speed on ahead Find the open spot and squeeze in there Again, this might seem justifiable because this person has more needs than everybody else or your needs are more important than everybody else's But if you can speed ahead of everybody else then so can anybody else I mean, this isn't such a clever and smart move that nobody else could think about it And maybe this works for you this time around But what happens when a lot of people start trying to squeeze in that one little spot and you may not believe this But these laws are there to protect you from others and to protect others from you So if you try to break these laws to protect your own interests You're actually endangering your own interests You're a fool and there's an entrance and exit ramp down one of the highways near where I live And it's one of these ridiculously close exits and entered entrance ramps on occasion Somebody will decide to speed on ahead around the long line of cars developing and then to exit we'll just simply stop and Wait for an opening and by waiting right there. The person is impeding traffic people are coming up along behind at highway speeds and Endangering their life and everybody else's life and in the pursuit of their own Interest trying to exit that highway ahead of all the other cars If endangered their lives and everybody else's that person is a fool