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 Some people talk about natural rights as though they are something mysterious or metaphysical. Perhaps for some philosophers they are. But for me, natural rights are pretty straight forward.To say that there is such a thing as a natural morality is only to say that it makes sense to speak of some actions as morally good or bad, right or wrong, in the absence of a state. The existence of a state is not a necessary condition for the existence of morality. I will concede that a natural morality may or may not incorporate a set of individual rights. But I think the reasons for incorporating rights are clear -- to protect individuals from certain harms and benefit them in other ways. We don't have to even mention the state to make these reasons compelling. |
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