On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:49:58AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > So, a "natural right" is whatever is considered a right according to > whatever happen to be the morals of the dominant society of the age, > whereas the other type of right is whatever is considered a right > (or convenient, or profitable...) according to the laws of the dominant > society of the age? ;) Yes. But most people refuse to realize this because they feel that the societal norms called "morals" possess a different (usually divine or otherwise religious) origin than the social norms called "laws". More simply, a lot of people feel that morals come from God or nature, and laws come from humans. I don't personally share that opinion, but I don't have to persuade everyone else to my perspective on it to achieve success in this particular forum (copyright as a non-right). -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is Debian GNU/Linux | perhaps less in what we are free to branden@debian.org | do than in what we are free not to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | do. -- Eric Hoffer
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