According to Hobbes the fool believes that if it is our duty to preserve ourselves at all costs, then reason should dictate that breaking the laws for our benefit should not be considered an injustice . (203) Thus the fool seeks to use his virtue to acquire one power after another in accordance with Hobbes's general inclination of all mankind to impose themselves as sovereign. He does this by manipulating notions of justice for his own purposes and using violence whenever it suits him, but especially when he takes the “power of other men” (203-204). There is no doubt that the convention between justice and injustice can be a powerful concept, but that does not make its existence any more real. Justice for fools is only a means to obtain or maintain one's power, not an end