What is left then is the state of nature would demand no drive-restrictions of us, it would leave we us be, but nature has its own particularly effective way of placing restrictions on us: it kill us–coldly, cruelly, without a qualm, it seems to us–perhaps on the very occasions of our satisfaction. It was precisely because of the perils with which nature threatens that we got together in the first place and created culture, which is meant among other things to enable us to live together.
