Natural vs. Positive | Where Does Law Come From?

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As an animal is observed, its behavior is the nature of that animal. Nothing more, nothing less. There is an objective set of ethics. The natural law is discoverable by man’s reason. There is widespread ignorance of what the natural law is. This doesn’t mean mistakes can’t be made. As Murray Rothbard pointed out, “those who try to hew to a policy of individual liberty” fail to grasp this. Natural law is a threat to the statist quo.

There is an absolute principle of justice. That is, the ability to determine what constitutes violence in interhuman relationships. It was John Locke, above all, who influence the American revolutionaries. As Locke put it, “Every man has a property in his own person…The labor of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state of nature…he hath mixed his labour…makes it his property.”

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