True, some people do abuse this power by revenging against those they do not like, when they catch them. Equally true as we learned from Hobbes is the fact that men are partial toward themselves and those like them. Locke's answer to this problem is the argument that it is the duty of a good government to write laws that could justly punish this unwonted impartiality and revenge. Punishment must always equal the degree of the crime.