Comment on Multi-culturism by sacredcow

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sacredcow · 7/15/2026, 8:21:38 AM · permalink

If you have never stated them, why are you here arguing?  
Arguing about what?  
  
Natural law and the NAP are good words of wisdom to live your life by.  
Or go rob, cheat and steal.  
Or go be a "good" person cause some god promises you streets of gold.  
  
Do you dog.  
  
It seems you want a perfect system to tell you who gets the last seat on a life boat.  
No system is perfect.  
Good luck with figuring life out.  
  
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Natural law is how these things have been described over human history.  
  
I guess lying, cheating, stealing and murdering is "natural" to you since you said none of these things are natural or a law.  
Just "morals".  
Yep, these are things I choose to do.  
If you don't, I choose not to interact with you.  
  
You want me to answer what threat level justifies force?  
I don't know every interaction between every human to define such a thing.  
  
Many of these "gotcha" questions have to have more information behind them for ME to make an informed decision.  
OTHER humans may make other decisions about those instances.  
  
Having a good moral frame work such as the NAP and Natural law to guide you through life helps.  
Life isn't easy.  
Life will have you make very tough choices some times.  
  
Lots of people think "might" makes right.  
Shit happens.  
  
Nothing about the NAP or Natural Law says life will be perfect or easy.  
Basically they say, don't fuck people over and life maybe just a bit easier for you.  
MAYBE easier for you...

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dickie · 7/15/2026, 11:12:17 AM · permalink

I am arguing because you keep calling a personal moral preference “Natural Law” and then treating criticism of the label as support for lying, theft and murder. That is a dishonest false choice.

Calling it Natural Law is itself false. It is not natural, because nature contains cooperation, deception, theft, killing, parasitism and domination. It is not law, because there is no objective authority, consistent definition or universal enforcement behind it. It pretends something exists outside human judgment when it does not.

The lifeboat, consent and aggression questions are not “gotchas.” They test whether the principle actually resolves difficult cases. Your answer is that you need more information and other people may decide differently. Exactly. That means it is human judgment, not an objective natural law.

You also keep retreating between two different claims. First, Natural Law and the NAP should govern human conduct. Then, when challenged, they are merely “good words” that might make life easier. Fine. “Try not to fuck people over” is useful advice. It is not a law of nature.

I do not need a perfect system, a promise of streets of gold or a threat of hell to avoid robbing people. You invented that argument because it is easier than addressing mine.

And spare me the libertarian lecture. I am probably more libertarian in practice than you are. I do not send my children to public school. I do not take government handouts. I have never chosen to live in, or buy property in, a town with zoning in the last 20 years. I have structured major parts of my life around avoiding state control rather than merely posting slogans about freedom.

The difference is that I do not pretend my choices were dictated by the universe. They are my values, my judgments and my responsibility. Calling your values “Natural Law” only disguises human opinion as something objective.

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