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Thomas Hobbes stated in his book Leviathan that humans are by nature evil. People are greedy and selfish, and life is nasty, short, and brutal. Hobbes was an educated man who used examples of past events to prove that humans are by nature evil. Even today we can see examples of humans being evil. In history there have been many instances when people have been evil. Dictators who oppress there people, governments corrupt there power, and innocent people are killed, showing that humans are by nature evil.
For hundreds of years dictators have ruled over people treating them harshly and unfairly. Stollin, a Russian dictator, believed in communism, but his evil human nature corrupted the system and he took advantage of everyone else. He told everyone that they were equal, but in the end he made himself more powerful than everyone else because he was greedy and selfish. Hitler, a German dictator, killed millions of people because he didn't think they deserved to live. He had a huge......

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