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Hobbes, Locke, and Very Silly Hats



John Locke: "Hey Hobbes." Thomas Hobbes, wearing an extremely silly hat: "Hey Locke." Locke: "So uh...what's with the hat?" Hobbes: "The King said everyone has to wear silly hats from now on, and sadly, because of the social contract, i must obey." Locke: "Isn't that...totally stupid?" Hobbes: "I don't want to talk about it!" Locke: "But why obey such stupid rules?" Hobbes, putting a silly hat on Locke: "Look, do you want to have a chaotic war of all against all? Huh? Well i don't, so we have to just wear the silly hats and stop complaining about it. Here, put this on before civilization collapses." PERSON: "No! Nobody, even the King, can desire to have me in his absolute power, to make me a slave! Any monarch which violates our sacred natural rights: life, liberty, property, and to not have to wear silly hats, is an illegitimate ruler that needs to be replaced!" Locke, taking off the hat: "I refuse to obey an illegitimate ruler, I'm taking off my silly hat!" Hobbes: "Locke, no!" Bystander, in a group of people wearing silly hats: "Hey, that guy's not wearing a silly hat!" Another bystander: "And thus, by extension, none of us need to obey the social contract." Locke, as chaos erupts, and the crowd starts to beat them up: "God damnit Locke, I told you!"
This is actually why there was a ministry of silly walks in Monty Python, because they live in an alternate universe where Hobbes's theory of Leviathan became the dominant political text of the 20th century.
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Philosophers in this comic: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke

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