The Rights to Property

Locke isn't explicit on his views of human nature, but from his very tone of how he addresses human nature he seems to think all people are good. He describes people as abiding to the laws of Nature, mainly the idea that all humans seek self preservation. If he thought human nature was bad, he would have most likely gone through a thorough description on how this could possibly be bad. But he doesn't, indicating there is nothing wrong with abiding to the laws of Nature. He also never makes any address to the quantity of material, rather, he addresses practical use. He seems to make an unstated assumption that we have almost an endless supply of all things, and it is just their worth that decides if there is any right to owning them, since things like water were meant to be left common for the good of all man. Finally, on the topic of how Locke views the environment as a resource or wasteland, Locke seems to be for the former. Locke uses examples such as fruit and other consumable natural resources to argue his point of property. Not only does he believe that the environment of worth, but that the resources it provides are of higher worth. Refined commodities like metals and diamonds Locke thinks are of altered worth, only being given worth by man as a luxury, but that the environment itself has the most worth, for it can be harnessed into something that can meet help us meet the law of Nature.