Why It Makes Them the Most Dangerous
Most Dangerous Places to Live in 2014
- Government System is corrupt and so cannot be trusted
- Take violence to their own hands
Iraq 2014
- Government does nothing to Prevent it
Venezuela 2014
Nigeria 2014
Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez’s death left little optimism that the country would undergo significant improvements in crime anytime soon.
including corruption, politically-backed drug trafficking and a highly overcrowded prison system.
homicide every 21 minutes — more than 200,000 over the last 15 years alone.
The Venezuelan government no longer publishes its crime statistics.
Conclusion
Nigeria
Iraq
- government concentrates its efforts on protecting its oil exports
- country remains socially and politically underdeveloped.
- Official security forces practice violence, rape and torture,
- Doesn't capture or reduce the network of organized crime or drug trade: Nigerian gangs continue to ship heroin, violence breaks out in the street and kills hundreds of civilian lives every year.
lack of stable government causes
- organized crimes ; drug trafficking in areas of the Balkans, Mexico and Nigeria.
- rise of crimes is more potent in a post-war scenario marked by insurgent groups who build and in turn harness power from the organized crime operations.
- US Bureau of Diplomatic Security states, 2013 was the worst year for civilian deaths since the height of the War in 2008.
- Hobbes was right because if we don't trust on the government then we will turn to savages because we need someone to rely on
but in order for it to work:
- corruption
- rebels
- people cannot take violence to their own hands
Thomas Hobbes/ Social Contract
Cons
- Many People don't believe in a social contract because it doesn't exist
- Don't trust in the government
- Don't believe that they should give up any of their freedom
Thesis
- Supports the Social Contract
- Social Contract -the voluntary agreement by giving part of your freedom to the gov. to have a organized society
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes theory about the social contract works for several countries and the ones that don't have a social contract struggle.
People need to be governed,
example, the book "Lord Of the Flies"-by William Golding
By Laura Martinez