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To: DiogenesLamp
In punishment of a crime.

So there's a loophole in natural law that allows its violation? 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. It's the "Bellum omnium contra omens."

I might agree if you could provide some examples.

Why don't you start by naming exactly what our natural rights are.

307 posted on 07/09/2015 12:09:28 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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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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