Believes in having the right to live when no wrong actions have been committed, but if wrong actions are committed there will be a consequence. Specifically, Rousseau discusses his support for the death penalty; holds that the state has the power and right to determine what punishment to give the criminal. His reason is that when he commits a crime, the citizen violates the social contract. When the social contract is violated, the citizen becomes an enemy of the state, resulting in the death penalty. He concludes the discussion by explaining that to have a healthy state there must be few of them