e, 1983, p. 21).
Hume further points out that relative abundance is always represented in our world by a lack of property rights or appropriate law; "whenever any benefit is bestowed by nature in an unlimited abundance, we leave it always in common among the whole human race, and make no subdivisions of right and property" (Hume, 1983, p. 21). If such were the case in our everyday lives, then there would be no reason to build fences, establish property rights, or regard any other human being as being deserving of any less than anyone else.
Hume further ties the concepts of justice and utility together by proposing another society, opposite in its abundance to what has previously been described. If every human need were in short supply, then obtaining wants and needs would take place on a first come first serve basis. Hume goes further in supposing that because the rules of equity and justice are guided by the use and tendency of the moment, the benefit of a society's survival would be served by the most radical of means: "Such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must have the most tragical consequences, and must terminate in destruction to the greater number" (Hume, 1983, p. 23)
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