*

Since the alternatives are either natural law or mob rules.......

what is natural law?

Survival of the fittest.

That looks like a sticker. Where did you find that Rick?

e-mail me if you like thomkokenge at gmail dot com

bushfish.org

Its in the pic!

natural law is survival of the fittest, use whatever means necessary to advance your DNA strain, no government intervention, if I kill you, you simply weren't fit enough rules

....that's quite wrong in fact.

The term 'natural law' is ambiguous. It refers to a type of moral theory, as well as to a type of legal theory, despite the fact that the core claims of the two kinds of theory are logically independent.

Survival of the fittest is far away at the opposite and least important end of the spectrum.

Yes adroomi, he would've been better served to say 'natural selection' vice natural law. But most of us knew what he meant.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/n/natlaw.htm 

Depends on what you're REALLY talking about.

http://www.jim.com/spooner.htm 

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/n1/natrllaw.asp 

http://studentweb.providence.edu/~eliasop/natural_law.htm 

http://www.townhall.com/hall_of_fame/kirk/kirk469.html 

http://www.townhall.com/hall_of_fame/kirk/kirk469.html 

Depends on what you REALLY know.

Depends on what you google too!

....Cause you and me are smart like that, Mac. We're cool too.

SCARY!

Ever see the movie "Dead Zone"? It just might remind you of our current leader. VERY SCARY!!!

Therein lies the dilemma I've been attempting to address. If our "rights" aren't God given, they aren't rights. They are permissions and may be removed for nearly any reason.

It comes down to epistemology. If we are no more than a higher level of monkey, why is natural selection wrong amongst humans as a way of law?

Uhhhhhh.......because so far we are the only species that has been proven to have a conscience? That's why we invented God. We anticipate and realize our own destiny.....death. That's (death) not acceptable to us. To monkeys it is.

herein? Therefore?

This reminds me of an ancient eskimo legend, WHEREIN it is written:

On whatever it is that they write it on up there

That if anything bad ever happens to your eyes

As a result of some sort of conflict

With anyone named Nanook

The only way you can get it fixed up

Is to go trudgin' across the tundra . . .

Mile after mile

Trudgin' across the tundra . . .

Right down to the parish of Saint Alfonzo . . .

Mo...that's the rub isn't it!

Its what seperates us from the "animals"!

That's not the rub, THIS is the rub.....

That got me just about as evil

As an Eskimo boy can be . . . so I bent down 'n I reached down

'n I scooped down

An' I gathered up a generous mitten full of the deadly . . .

YELLOW SNOW

The deadly Yellow Snow from right there where the huskies go

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mitten full

Of the deadly Yellow Snow Crystals

And rub it all into his beady little eyes

With a vigorous circular motion

Hitherto unknown to the people on this area,

But destined to take the place of THE MUD SHARK

In your mythology

Here it goes now . . .

THE CIRCULAR MOTION . . . (rub it) . . .

That's the rub.....

Mo'sMan, which rights are God given?

Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast!

....where I stole the margerine.

"If our "rights" aren't God given, they aren't rights. They are permissions and may be removed for nearly any reason."

Isn't that sort of the way life works?