arcanum
Active Member
Natural law is basically self evident laws which derive from nature or god, and which spring more from one's natural inborn sense of decency and conscience than something imposed upon oneself by the tyranny of other men or the hierarchy of religion for the purposes of control. The more I dwell upon it the more it makes sense. There are many laws which people have to live under, both secular and religious, many of which are ludicrous and seem to go contrary to human nature. All these laws are like a barbed wire fence around one's sense of self. I don't need a religion to tell me not to harm anyone or if possible anything, or don't take anything that doesn't belong to me, and not to be dishonest. Not that I haven't been guilty of these things in the past but I at least felt bad about them because I have a healthy conscience that I got from nature or god. I think these are basic commonsense things that most humans know not to do unless they have the tendencies of a sociopath or psychopath. Unfortunately I think our society is creating more and more of these types of people as modern society has gotten far away from common sense and are thus creating monsters. Do you feel guilty about violating a strange counter intuitive man made law, like jaywalking? I don't know about you but I don't. But if I accidentally step on a dog's paw and cause it pain I feel horrible. This is an example of natural law at work. So we have two different sets of laws we must live under, but I feel that many of the often complicated and labyrinthine man mad laws have gotten so out of alignment with common sense that it is doing humanity a huge disservice and outright harm.
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