When attempting to dominate other human beings, Locke believes that we have the natural ability to recognize it as wrong and are justified in stopping the wrongdoer because it is a violation of natural law (Kersey, 2013b). Locke also rejected Hobbes's theory that the state of nature is a state of war. Locke proposed that instead of a state of war it was a state of distress, because people are unwilling to respect the natural rights of others. Locke was revolutionary in identifying these natural rights as life, liberty and