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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Oeconomicus who wrote (21732)7/26/2005 9:42:55 AM
From: Solon  Respond to of 28931
 
"sometimes, as I demonstrated, the law fails to adequately define those limits,"

Correct. Indeed, the law is often UNlawful when measured against the objectivity of the reasonable person. And it is the reliance on "Natural Law" as measure that we are able to challenge the rightness of laws. On this basis we have condemned laws in support of slavery, etc.

”An act is a violation of natural law if, were a man to commit such an act in a state of nature, (that is to say, in the absence of an orderly and widely accepted method of resolving disputes), a second man, knowing the facts and being a reasonable man, would reasonably conclude that the first man constituted a threat or danger to the second man, his family, or his property, AND if a third man, knowing the facts and being a reasonable man, were to observe the second man getting rid of the first man, the third man would not reasonably conclude that the second man constituted a threat or danger to third man, his family, or his property."