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Originally Posted by ZenGum
I do not believe in any "natural rights". IMHO, all rights are derived from social conventions and an implicit social contract. Rights are human inventions.
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Some consider natural law and natural rights to be that which corresponds to the spontaneous order that develops in the absence of social conventions and what individuals would do independently of each other, still being rational people, through the use of individual unorganized force to protect their property. Use of individual unorganized force in consonance with the nature of humans and their world would not indicate that the person using such force is a danger to a reasonable man. Natural law and natural rights are discovered whereas social conventions are invented. Natural law and natural rights derive from the nature of humans and their world just as physical law and properties derive from the nature of matter, space, and time. They follow from the kind of animal that we are and all animals know or can discover what they need to do in order to lead the life that they are physically suited to live. Some see natural law and natural rights as still being a real force that constrains the lawless arrogance of sociopaths as well as some government officials.