“...keep in mind that your potential opponent or adversary has his natural rights as well. That’s why we have laws.”
If I were violating my adversary’s fundamental God given rights, I would expect for a system of just laws (and enforcement) to compel me to cease that activity.
Only a law which is repugnant to the natural rights of man would dictate otherwise.
Which wasn’t the case in 1861.
>>If I were violating my adversarys fundamental God given rights, I would expect for a system of just laws (and enforcement) to compel me to cease that activity.<<
There is such a thing in place now: Sharia Law.