What happens when an individual enters, from the state of nature, into a governed society?

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All I can think of is not getting discriminated because you are in the said society. I’ll edit this when I think of more.

edit- Maybe this society has something he lacked, for example medical/security benefits?

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Read Wolf Boy – it is a true story of the very thing of which you speak.

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interesting question, i look forward to seeing more answers.

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The benefits are a bit intangible.
Like Gold getting that shine when heated beaten and reshaped.

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To talk about this topic you might want to go back to the ancient tale of Gilgamesh. In that story, his friend Enkidu made the transition of which you speak. He moves from wild man to man of society when seduced to the change by a woman. If you haven’t read the story, a quick Google search of the names should help you find a synopsis of the story. You also might want to consider Henry David Thoreau who went from being a member of society to living on his own.

The benefits of sacrificing liberty to join society include:

Access to relationship – whether platonic or sexual, society affords the opportunity to have relationships which is, for most, a basic human need.

The ability to allow specialists to address ones needs. When in a state of nature, a person must provide for all his/her own needs. As a member of society, the person would have a choice to specialize in a number of fields including food production, archetecture, philosophy, medicine, music, teaching, etc. The fact that certain needs are available as a member of society, also means that it is possible to have leisure time available.

Entering a society provides protection. Groups of people are better able to stave off wild animals or attacks from enemies than an individual.

This isn’t everything, but should provide a start.

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Homo Sapiens have always lived in groups, it is our natural arrangement if you will. Humans that survive in the wild from infancy to adulthood are rare exceptions since human babies are so ineffective at actually caring for themselves (think of an eight week-old kitten vs. an eight week-old baby, my money is on the kitten). All this is to say that we are born into society, we do not enter into it. This “man in nature” was a fiction invented by 17th and 18th Century philosophers partly out of their assumption that no such thing as society existed among the indigenous peoples of places outside of Europe. Any anthropologist could easily disabuse you of this notion.

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Sounds like this is a Lockean state of nature. If so, Locke’s absolute liberty meant that each inidividual has the right to enforce the law of nature (which notably includes security of private property) and punish and seek damages from trangressors of that law. Yet, in the state of nature, if everyone has the ability to take the law into his own hands, little order exists. Locke proposes that man gives up that right to a government and legal body. In doing, man receives proper protection of his rights, his life, well-being which for Locke all are property. Cheers.

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I think that it must be worked out by the society if it must work with such individuals. And then if it must, if it must find it such that liberty is forsaken for the act. So that if the society is ever thought to be as such.

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The last two questions I answered were about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Does that give you any ideas?