John Locke :: Empiricists, Empiricism

In Chapter five Locke says, that the kingdom drive out be used by the flock for their survival, protection, or whatsoeverway in which they could pull ahead from it. This is where I got a little confused. So then if everything on the earth belongs to everyone then what is individual property? I read it over and over and Im not sure if I have the veracious answer unless Ill try. Everyone owns on that point own body, and all the carry they do they do with their body. When a person works with their body on something that thing becomes their own because they did the work. And he also says that there is some riddle of limit that people cant take more(prenominal) than they can use. He uses acorns or other fruits as an example and says, But how cold has he given it us? To enjoy. As much as both one can make use of to any advantage of living before it spoils, so much he may by his working class fix a property in whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. (Locke 20-21) He later says that if someone has too many fruits he could alternate them for money. I agree that everyone should use the earth to his or her advantage but not when it comes to endangering someone else or taking away something that someone call for more than you do. I agree that if you work with fruit trees that it is your right to decimate those apples and that you should only(prenominal) take as many as needed. But that isnt the case in society today. Lets face it people are greedy and greed is something that has destroyed the world we live in. If there wasnt any greed there wouldnt be any murder cases or any kidnappings or robberies, etc, the list can go on and on. Another example is college acceptance. All savants work for the same hope, to bring down accepted to a good college and hopefully gain a line of business that will best fulfill their needs. Say we have two same savants both scored a 1500 on their SATs and they where equally involved in th eir school. The only difference was that one student came from a wealthy family and the other students came from a not so wealthy family. They both applied to Princeton. The outcome is that the student from the wealthy family gets enrolled as a freshman in the fall, and the other student is placed on the waiting list.