When attempts are made to dominate other human beings, Locke believes that we have the natural ability to recognize that this is wrong and that we are justified in doing so. arrest the transgressor because it is a violation of natural law (Kersey, 2013b). Locke also rejected Hobbes's theory that the state of nature is a state of war. Locke proposed that instead of a state of war, it is a state of unpleasantness, because people are unwilling to respect the natural rights of others. Locke was revolutionary in identifying these natural rights as life, liberty and liberty.