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Originally Posted by dippin
Denying that there is such a thing as natural law doesn't mean that anything goes, or that anything is right. In fact, your entire example shows why there is no such thing as natural law, given how the people who wrote so many "natural laws" seemed to ignore it.
Morality and compassion do not depend on the law being "natural."
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that would simply mean that what you are saying is 'white people rule the world, the rest just have to follow'.
Slavery didn't mean that those people didn't have natural rights, just that they were being denied them at the time.
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