Marcelina H. answered • 04/11/25
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French and Political Science Major with a minor in TESOL
The state of nature is a pre-civil state wherein human beings exist in the absence of laws, customs, or any other social impositions. It is often conflated with a state of war because, lacking social institutions, it also lacks a system of checks and balances to help enforce accountability or ensure justice. This makes conflict prone to arise within it.
