  What I cannot free ride on is the creation of a state. I want the state, just as everyone who sees it as mutually advantageous wants it. Suppose that somehow, perhaps using the ring of Gyges to make me invisible as Glaucon proposed, I could get away with theft or other crimes. Even then, I would still want the state to have the power to coerce people into order because if they are not orderly, they will produce nothing for me to steal. If it is true, as Hobbes supposes, that having a state is mutually advantageous, it follows that we all want it; and none of us can free ride on whether there is a state. Either there is one or there is not, and if there is one, then I am potentially subject to its powers of legal coercion. On balance, I would want there to be an effective state for the protections it gives me against others despite its potential for coercing me into good behavior.