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In the post-order world of the Walking Dead, Negan is angry that Rick and his group killed a lot of his men. Negan expresses that he is their leader and orders them to give him their belongings. This scene illustrates the views of enlightenment thinker, Thomas Hobbes, that the absence of government and order would cause the world to be a war of every man against every man.
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