Cows are the new Dolphins folks, get the memo... Psht.

John Locke was a notorious optimist. This passage from his work strongly reinforces this point. Locke believes that human nature is inherently good. He argues that all men were created by God to toil on the earth and in doing so; they will produce a result that will help other men. One interesting example of this “in action” comes from the television show, How I Met Your Mother. In an episode called “The Bracket,” the womanizing character, Barney, is forced to come to terms with several women he treated extremely poorly. However, when he comes to apologize to a woman that he abandoned in the woods to be rescued a few hours later by another gentleman, he discovers she ended up marrying the man that found her. In fact, the couple thanks Barney for leaving her in the wild. In this way, Locke argues that some good will come to some other person no matter how bad an action may seem at first. Locke also argues that resources are abundant to a degree. The qualification is meant to signify the fact that resources are abundant to humans when they need them. One resource that follows this logic is the cow. We need cows for food. They are abundant because we only kill enough cows to eat and prevent disease. If cows were being killed for sport, then their abundance would quickly go down. Locke argues that a resource can only be abundant if it is used properly. Animals that were poached for pleasure such as the Bald Eagle are now scarce since they were killed and not used for sustenance or to serve a real purpose. This logic then implies that Locke believes that the world and its environment are extremely valuable and that they will continue to stay that way as long as the resources are used only when needed and never squandered.