Society will eventually devolve into a totalitarian regime

Lock and Hobbes, like all of us, are philosophers. Every one of us, maintains our own philosophy. Also, there is an element of science in all of us. Science is about studying repeatable patterns in nature and trying to understand our place in the universe, while using those patterns to advance our standard of living from the fruits of technology, food production, medicine, economics and social development. These patterns are known as the Laws of Nature where these Laws are independent of, and existed long before the evolution of philosophy. Take social development for example, group formation is found throughout the spectrum of life from schools of fish, to flocks of birds, to packs of wolves, etc. Therefore, these Laws of Nature transcends human philosophy. It is true Jefferson, during the enlightenment era, was well read (over 6000 books in his library) and inspired by the giants in science, mathematics, and philosophy. Whatever one thinks about Jefferson and his personal habits is unrelated to his discovery of life's bio-program, which he only equated to the scope of humanity and selected the term “Unalienable Rights. ” Relative to this bio-program---Unalienable Rights---is a manifestation of the physical Constructal Law, that is, once inanimate matter becomes alive, its “Life,” must have the freedom (“Liberty” in the optimization minimizing resistance), in “the pursuit (energy flow) of" survival; otherwise, there is no life. This is a Law in Nature, not some philosophical ideology. . http://www.amazon.com...Again, survival is positive-feedback and a prerequisite for human “Happiness. ” Hence, Jefferson's discovery, which he declared “self-evident” and used the labeled “Unalienable Rights” representing a polished version of this biological energy flow in the following celebrated statement, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. ” It seems Pro also has an issue with Jefferson's term of “self-evident. ” An axiom is a premise so “self-evident” as to be accepted as true without controversy. From a logical point of view, the event of survival or death, or success or failure in the pursuit of positive- or negative-feedback, when interfacing with nature, presents a self-contained system of binary outcomes. In the field of mathematics and logic, such a closed system of propositions brings into existence a proof. From a binary standpoint, notably, it would be impossible to take away any one of the Rights while leaving the other two intact, as all of the Rights are dependent on one another. Without Life, one cannot enjoy Liberty or pursue Happiness. Without Liberty, one cannot pursue Happiness, and as this pursuit overlaps with the pursuit of survival, one is unable to continue Life. Without the pursuit (energy flow) of events leading to survival (positive-feedback, Happiness) one cannot continue Life or enjoy Liberty. Because of their interdependency and tendency to wane simultaneously with various degrees of obstruction, the three Rights define a spectrum of positions. The binary positive end of the spectrum is a position of Life, Liberty, and Happiness (positive-feedback), while the negative end is a position of death, tyranny, and distress (negative-feedback). Now that we understand life’s bio-program---Unalienable Rights are part of the physical Laws of Nature, not some human philosophy, Con will focus on the freedom factor (“Liberty”), a part of all life. As stated previously, life's bio-program---Unalienable Rights maintains, once alive, or a social entity comes into existence, there is a natural desire to grow, improve and prolong “Life,” craving more freedom (“Liberty” in the optimization relative to resistance), “the pursuit (energy flow) of ” an objective; once accomplished, positive-feedback (“Happiness”). In a civil society, freedom, in part, is also a function of money, the more money one has, the more one can do and buy things. According to the Nobel laureate in economics Friedrich Hayek once stated, “Money is one of the greatest instrument of freedom ever invented by man” (. http://www.amazon.com...).Liberty is on the move with the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s, Red China engaging in free-market principles, etc. In general economic freedom is on the increase throughout the world (. http://www.heritage.org...). At the same time, tyranny is also on the move with the spread of dogmatic theocracies from the Middle East, and big government welfare states. Hence, the natural cycle between Liberty and Tyranny in the evolution of social systems. Con demonstrated, the drive for freedom in living-systems is part of the Laws of Nature. Freedom is the driving force that presents an everlasting cycle of Liberty and Tyranny, or war and peace between different living-systems in social evolution. Social evolution is about “good ideas” according to Adrian Bejan (. http://www.amazon.com...): “Good ideas travel and persist. They keep on traveling. This is why culture is a constructal design [Constructal Law]---a tapestry of morphing linkages in our minds and on the globe---all superimposed on the same area (the globe) and in the same volume (the brain). As such, culture is the same kind of design as the tapestry of vascular architectures, animate and inanimate, all superimposed on the Earth’s surface. ”Con demonstrated freedom is a driving force in evolution and part of the Laws of Nature. Pro has yet provided the Burden of Proof (BoF) that “society will eventually devolve into a totalitarian regime. ”