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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
So there's a loophole in natural law that allows its violation?

More like there is a requirement to balance it.

Ultimately, crime is a societal construct, and imprisonment for crime a violation of someone's natural right of liberty agreed upon by society in exchange for the benefits and protections of that society. In the State of Nature, nothing is a crime.

Malum prohibitum is the toy of society.

Malum in se is not.

You casually attempt to equate one with the other, and I suspect it is because you are just now being informed that there is a difference.

308 posted on 07/09/2015 12:53:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
More like there is a requirement to balance it.

You're just making this up as you go along, aren't you? Of course, as I said before, "Natural Law" tends to mean whatever someone wants it to mean. But I would argue that that requirement is why societies and governments are formed, and we surrender (or "balance") our absolute natural rights for the benefits derived from that man-made balance. That balance is not part of the natural law, but it's compromise by men to lead in order to lead less nasty, less brutish, less short lives.

You casually attempt to equate one with the other, and I suspect it is because you are just now being informed that there is a difference.

Which one is slavery? Is that only wrong because we say it's wrong, or is it inherently evil?

309 posted on 07/09/2015 1:09:30 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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