This is Hobbes' description of his imagined state of nature, where all men are created equal at the start, in that each one can theoretically kill any other one. Leviathan
Hobbes' state of nature is as purely hypothetical, in its way, and as unrealistic as a starting point for anything, as is Rawl's
' original position '.
It may be better to think of them as utopian counterfactual worlds, and as a starting point for fallacies in reasoning.
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