RE: What is the meaning of this?

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 08:52:14 MST


Lee Corbin asks:

> What is a natural right? Who issued it? From whence does
> it come, or emanate?

I think of natural law as an emergent property of biological evolution.

All creatures have a natural right to struggle to better their own
existence, because that is what it *means* to be a living creature.

This does not however mean that all living creatures should expect their
natural rights never to be violated. The world is inherently unjust.

If you are lost and hungry in the desert then you have a natural right
kill and eat rattlesnakes. But don't be fooled into thinking
rattlesnakes don't also have a natural right to defend themselves.

> For example, it's not been found in our DNA

On the contrary, it is the very essence of our DNA.

-gts



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