I agree with this post.
William
On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:40:16 -0400, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One other note on this. Hobbes was talking about mankind in the "state
> of nature." So he was actually referring to paleo man with his
> statement that life was nasty, brutish, and short. He was very wrong.
> Life became nasty when we *left* the state of nature.
>