(July 21, 2015 at 4:46 pm)Cato Wrote:(July 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm)Anima Wrote: So by what right do you claim no one may take these from you? Surely not by means of the natural law.
Certainly so, with recognition that other possess the same fundamental rights. Observing other apes makes it reasonable to conclude that murder was considered immoral long before we learned to use language or conceptualize what a right was. You can't get much more natural than that. Our ability to conceptualize then allows us to extend these basic principles across any number of human interactions.
Ha ha. I like this. So you are saying you made up a right and then said others of like type have that right and thus all must now abide by this right? Nature does not prohibit the murder of another of the same species. So what is the inalienable rights crap? They sound entirely made up and far from inalienable to the species as a whole or our person in particular.
