Natural Laws – Human Philosophy or Divine Law?
February 19, 2010
When people argue that they have rights, where do they come from? If you read a lot history books, many of our great leaders referred to Natural Laws when they were constructing laws. Such as the phrase, “endowed by our creator unalienable rights….” Are our laws given only by our creator or is there some sense of instict or human morality that guides us? I’m going to argue against instinct because that is more of an animal behavior to me. Human morality would come from a civilized human, but where did they get their morality? Their parents? Teachers? Government? If so, then who taught those parents, teachers and government morality? So you see where I’m going with this? I am not arguing for or against Natural Laws coming from either religion or just natural human instinct. But there has to be some basis for why we think things are right or wrong and why someone decided to make those laws in a civilization.
