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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
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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Recognizing that white people ruled the world does not mean that that made it right. And if natural rights are neither self evident nor intrinsically adopted, the whole notion of natural law is irrelevant.
Again, denying that there is such a thing as natural law does not justify an "anything goes" approach, so the idea that anyone who believes that there is no natural law would be ok with slavery is nonsense. In fact, for a very long time the idea that rights are universal went squarely against the idea that rights are natural.