JBeukema
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.Actually, it's a factI do. I read his Treatise many years ago. Where you fail was the assertion that Locke placed his head in it and pulled the cord.
That statement is a mere opinion, with no support.
Here he describes his false impression of nature
....a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they see fit, within the bounds of the laws of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection....
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions....
He jumps from "this is how I think it is" to "it ought to be this way"