I'm working from the article and not Bregman's work (though it's been added to my reading list) but the article does setup Bregman to respond to a strawman inst

I'm working from the article and not Bregman's work (though it's been added to my reading list) but the article does setup Bregman to respond to a strawman instead of Hobbe's actual argument. One of the differentiators here is that difference between intent and reality. Most everyone, even very bad people, typically believe they are behaving ethically and "doing good". It's just that sometimes one persons good is another's evil. That's one of the issues the Leviathan fixes - it prevents these kind of oversteps by keeping externally enforced standards on behavior.