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To: ought-six
-- natural law is independent of anything man does, and exists whether man is around or not. --

Blackstone agrees, but the part of natural law that operates in the jungle, among animals, birds, and insects, has no application in deciding issues that arise among people and groups of people.

Blackstone says there is a body of natural law that applies to human interaction. Unfortunately, it is up to humans to discover this law. He cites three principles, live honestly, hurt nobody, render to every one it's due.

77 posted on 01/09/2016 2:44:27 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
Blackstone says there is a body of natural law that applies to human interaction. He cites three principles, live honestly, hurt nobody, render to every one it's due.

That is Blackstone's wishful thinking, or projection. Natural law would be silent on those principles, because they do not exist in natural law. That is why man sought to establish them.

83 posted on 01/09/2016 4:08:06 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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