Natural law comes from nature, the creator, evolution, etc or whomever you believe created mankind. In any case we're BORN with rights and they are as real and undeniable as gravity. You can no more sell, give away, or vote on gravity than you can your rights. If every single person on earth voted to get rid of gravity tomorrow, we'd still have it.
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In regards to Spooner. Sounds great in theory, but if it were so simple, so, "...easily understood by common minds..." then why is it that we have such an enormous problem with crime?
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Natural law refers to rights and doesn't say we won't have criminals who violate it. Even criminals know they're doing something wrong. Nobody has the right to take the property of a non-consenting other, but they do it. Only when the rights of a person have been violated has an actual crime been committed.
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"Such ideas are outdated"; "He has oversimplified the problem"; "What would happen if everyone thought that way?"
These are typical examples of statements intended to avoid a rational discussion. When someone responds to you in this manner, it is almost always a sure sign that your thinking cap is on straight, because it indicates that you have made a logical statement for which he has no logical rebuttal. And if that is the case, do not allow yourself to be thrown off course.
[b]-Robert J. Ringer
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is...indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid"
[b]-Bertrand Russell
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(hey I agree with Radar on this point! Zounds!)
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As has been mention this woman admits to being mentally unbalanced.
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Of course you claim to be mentally unbalanced when you're arrested for murder. You lay the groundwork to claim you were innocent by reason of insanity.