However, how many Hobbesians are there? Admittedly, many intellectuals profess to be Hobbesians, perhaps because it sounds cool and gives the impression of being a no-sense realist, but observe how they raise their children. In my experience, few of them teach Hobbesianism to their children. Are they honest Hobbesians and lying parents? Or are they honest parents that merely pretend to be Hobbesians when they enter the safe groves of Academia? True, there is a sufficient number of psychopaths in all walks of life to cause concern, but still they are far too few to warrant the presumption that every person is a Hobbesian. There is no reason for assuming that every voter really believes that he (or anybody else) has the right to rule all others. Consequently, if a voter had given the matter some thought, the chances are good that he would have decided that that it was wrong for him to vote. He still might have reasoned that it was nevertheless permissible for him to vote because ‘everybody else was doing it’. Even so, it would not be surprising to find that most people hold moral views that are incompatible with the notion that voting—authorising some to rule others—is a morally permissible act. After all, ‘because everybody else is doing it’ hardly counts as a convincing moral argument, even if it were true that everybody else is doing it—which usually is not the case.