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To: Heartlander

“The first principle of the Declaration is equality, which means no one is by nature the ruler of another.”

Well that’s that guy’s interpretation of “created equal”, but it’s equally idiotic.

Are you telling me that a powerful person “by nature” doesn’t become the ruler of a weakling left to their nature and as the result of their respective nature?

The last place you want to appeal for equality is nature, which is the epitome of “might makes right”.

This romantic notion of “natural law” is nothing but wishful thinking - a Disney world view of reality. “Natural law” in reality is the law of the jungle.


17 posted on 08/10/2017 10:02:40 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48
Well that’s that guy’s interpretation of “created equal”, but it’s equally idiotic.

Thomas G. West holds the Paul Ermine Potter and Dawn Tibbetts Potter Endowed Professorship in Politics at Hillsdale College.

See also: Natural Law

18 posted on 08/10/2017 10:36:33 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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