Dang, it’s a slow day in the `hood when we can’t get the ol’ monkey pot stirred.
OK, so Nietzsche said (paraphrasing) `with the death of God, all things are possible.’
That could be good things, as well as Stalin’s purges and Auschwitz, right?
But that requires man be seen as the measure of all things, with no restraints other than positive law?
So if we reject `natural law’, for example: the `God-given’ right to defend one’s self and others as codified in positive law and determine that such defense should be left to the police and military, then we can repeal (at least) the 2nd Amendment, because people wiser than ourselves have decided these things for us lesser apes;
at the same time, some apes are without doubt more equal than others so positive law reflecting natural law would have to be amended to allow political, economic and other elites to, say, shoot one of us if we refused to step aside on the sidewalk, and so forth and so on.