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Originally Posted by thegamerslink
So by "natural rights" you are referring more to natures "survival of the fittest" theorem than anything else. As rights as we see them are only privileges bestowed on a populace by the entity that governs it.
Would not natural law fall more into the realm of biology and physics?
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No idea who you are addressing here . . . but . . .
"Natural Rights" is rather a quaint notion these days. No serious contemporary philosophies truly recognize rights as anything "Nature" bestows, but as something discourse creates.
Likewise, "Survival of the fitest" is a nasty bastardization of Darwinian theory of evolution. It has been bastardized by political forms of discourse that seek to frame an arguement of "fitest vs less fit" where the issue here are purely economic/political/dominitive -- that is, discources of domination. Biologists understand this more as "surrival of the most well adapted", not the most dominant.
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Would not natural law fall more into the realm of biology and physics?
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No. Maybe more philosophy, rather old school at that, but there are very few laws in any science, and any notion of "human rights" as a "natural law" is simply just silly.