How Did John Locke Eat The Fruit Of Knowledge

She thought the restriction against "eating the fruit of knowledge" not well thought through. She felt god's threat of death as a consequence of eating the fruit of knowledge excessive. Yet when Eve ate the fruit she caused a dramatic shift - in both nature and the human condition. In nature, things begin to degrade and human beings began to die.

Eve's downfall began when she thought she had the capacity judge the existence of waste (p.200). God offered human beings an array of gifts. Yet he felt that judgment of what forms waste as beyond human capacity. (p.198) "Humans should recognize the limits of what they can know; unlike God, they are not omniscient, and they can get terribly lost and make disastrous mistakes when they try to venture outside the generous limits God has set." (p.198)

Property Rights
“In John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, food waste is crucial to the foundation of the rights of humans to the resources God gave them.” (p.201) Locke sees the world as god's creation. Yet in his conception, god expects man to work to survive. In addition, he has given to the world to humanity collectively. Human beings must guard against waste. Locke identifies two kinds of waste. He sees the rotting and degradation of matter as one kind of waste. He saw the second kind of waste when man did not use land he
205). Yet, if someone used this term for every kind feast they could oversimplify on occasion. Such celebrations have often helped maintain the social fabric. For example, in the Pacific Northeast, Indian tribes had the "Potlatch" (208). Part of the ceremony was providing guests with large amounts of food. Some of the observers called the ceremony barbaric. Yet they did not look at their own customs, for example the waste associated with Thanksgiving or