Thread by @McAdooGordon

Another admirable & moral concept that leftists are trying to destroy: natural law. We need to hold onto correct meanings. “Natural law” is a concept that law is grounded in moral ideas that are universal because they are inherent in being human. /1

So you have legal rights *because* you are a human being, like the right to freedom of conscience. The right is inherent in you- given to you by God or nature or life, etc. Natural law is contrasted with “positive law,” which is law based on rights given by government. /2

There is also “divine” law, which is law- rather than rights -that is given by a god. The kosher laws would be an example.

A great deal of American law, especially constitutional, is based on the idea of “natural law.” /3

Leftist lunatics are now trying to say that “natural law” is a racist dog whistle - because they are historically illiterate. They apparently think “natural law” is part of an idea called “the natural order” which was a bastardization of Darwin’s theory used to justify slavery./4

Racists used Darwin’s evolutionary theory in a simplified form (survival of the fittest) to say that competition between races had shown some races were superior & some inferior & that was therefore “the natural order.” That has zero to do with “natural law,” however. /5

I mean, they both have the word “natural” in them, I’ll give you that. But, redhead & redbird both have the word red in them too so . . . 🤷🏻‍♀️

So as usual it’s not knowing things that leads them to claim a legal theory formed on the inherent dignity of each human is “racist.”🙄/6

In philosophy, which predated the bastardization of Darwin, the “natural order” is the moral basis for “natural law.” So, for example, the natural order is that humans are free, evidenced for 1 thing by the fact that people fight enslavement. Thus, the right of liberty exists./7

This form of “natural order” has nothing to do w/survival of the fittest or racial ideas. It is grounded on observation of, some would say idealized, but others would say inherent, human nature. We require security, freedom, self-actualization. Thus, natural law protects those./8

Now obviously, I’ve simplified a lot of this to get the ideas across in a short thread, so if you want to know more about natural law, you should read Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Spinoza & Jefferson. /9