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Uhm...I'm saying that I don't care whether anarchy and Locke's democracy are polar opposites. You were trying to prove that unrestricted liberty was wrong remember? The best you have so far is that human nature (what the **** is human nature anyway? Something that is inherent in all humans?) would make a society with unrestricted liberty fail.
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You quoted me saying that unrestrained liberty would destroy the democracy described in Two Treatises of Government, which the government of the United States has taken much from. I am talking about the democracy of the United States only, since that is what this topic was originally talking about.
As for human nature, it is basically just something that does not change across different cultures and does not change for incredibly long periods of time. There are tons of different perspectives looking at this, but the one I was talking about with John Locke was the one he believed, the one based off religions that believe in the God of Abraham (Islam, Judaism, Christainity).