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Subject: liberty and justice


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Damoclese
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Date Posted: 03/ 3/02 9:23am
In reply to: Primordial 's message, "ok, ok.....here is one answer...what say you?" on 03/ 2/02 2:56pm

>Natural Law is about how people "ought" to behave in
>the absence of Conventional laws.....which are
>directly related to "reason". This is why they are
>termed "natural" and thus distinct from man-made laws.
>Reason, is perhaps the most important key.
>Natural laws are therefore "just" and conventional
>laws can actually be unjust.

I wouldn't go so far as to call nature itself "just". For instance, perhaps the scenario is that one man has a loaf of bread that he himself intends to consume. However, there are other men out there equally as hungry, so one of them snatches the loaf of bread, and eats it. Meanwhile, the guy who originally had the loaf of bread dies. Is that justice? I'd say it isn't. Nature is neither just nor injust, it just is.

Damoclese

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