In Thomas Hobbes we do not find support for so-called positive rights or entitlements owed to us from others. We do find support for negative rights, or liberties to act peacefully. By becoming a government that supports entitlements and invades liberties, American government paved the way for lockdowns, as a means of supposedly providing the health everyone is supposedly entitled to as a positive right. Thomas Hobbes is an apt source to look at because he’s famous for defending an absolutist state. Nonetheless, what we find is that despite this he did not envision the kind of totalitarian state we … Continue reading Entitlements Paved the Way for Lockdowns