While Thomas Hobbes believed that all people were evil and fought only for their own interests, John Locke believed that people were naturally good and were blank slates once born, the which makes them learn from their experiences instead of just being evil. John Locke believed in democracy because if a government is like an absolute monarch, it will not satisfy all the needs of the people and that is why the people have the right to rebel against abusive government, as demonstrated in the American Revolutionary War with King George III or the French Revolutionary War with King Louis XVI who did not support the ideas and goals of his citizens. Thomas Hobbes believed that people could not be trusted because they would only fight for their own interests, so an absolute monarch would require obedience to maintain order, but John Locke states that people can be trusted since all people are naturally good but they depend on our experiences since they can still govern themselves. The purpose of government, according to John Locke, is to protect individual liberties and rights instead of merely maintaining law and order because with law and order strictly enforced, people would rebel because they did not represent them and therefore the country would rebel. collapse because so was the king