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Are there any natural rights? "A man may choose whether he will become a civil servant or a schoolmaster, a conservative or a socialist, but he cannot choose whether he will be a man or a dog."[1]
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Are there any natural rights? "A man may choose whether he will become a civil servant or a schoolmaster, a conservative or a socialist, but he cannot choose whether he will be a man or a dog."1 Natural rights are perceived as the inherent and original rights of human nature, which equally belong to all men without exception, and which are possessed solely because of their human condition. They are held to stem from a concept of natural law, whatever definition may be attributed to the term. The theory of natural law and natural rights of man is, however, an obscure one. It seems a strange law, which is unwritten, has never been enacted, may even be observed without penalty, and imposes peculiar rights which are entitled prior to all specific claims within an organised society. It may be just an example of 'social mythology', but such an idea is still...
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