Doubtful. Humanity has lived without states for millennia. A state is not a requirement for preventing mass self-destruction (although that does not mean I woul

Doubtful. Humanity has lived without states for millennia. A state is not a requirement for preventing mass self-destruction (although that does not mean I would advocate a stateless society as a first choice). Hobbes makes the same mistake Plato does with the only difference being that he puts force in place of philosophy. And in so doing, rather ironically, justified Cromwell's usurpation of/ascendance to the throne as Lord Protector.