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Per. 3 The Nature of Government When told to come up with the primary function of government one must take into consideration why governments were even created, why the natural state of man wasn’t good enough, why people had to band together. This analysis of the nature of man goes far beyond the barbaric qualities that have been with man since creation; to eat, sleep, kill and have sex. What sets man apart from beast is our ability to think, our ability to recognize, as Machiavelli puts it, “Honor, generosity and piety in others.” As a child, one tends to enjoy playing with the child most willing to share, while the child least willing to share has what he wants and is happy but is considered mean. It is the tendency to want to be involved with other people that has created problems because before government, man could not find a balance between being surrounded by other humans and having everything they wanted. When a group of children interact, they do so in a natural state, where all of them are equals playing together. A group of children could play together infinitely without any problems until Timmy takes John’s red ball. This is so because if John can have a red ball and all the children are equal then Ti