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Keith Henson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:29 PM, <samantha <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com"><sjatkins@mac.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">To be more precise, naturals come from the actual nature of the beings
involved. In other words they are based in reality. I don't think
reality requires God. If in reality human beings have certain critical
characteristics dictating that they best interact with one another (the
only domain of rights) in certain ways and not others then these are
rights inherent to their nature. It will be difficult to claim that
human beings have no particular nature in reality that is relevant to
the proper way for them to act towards one another.
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Humans certainly have species wide "human nature" and the only way I
know of that they could have obtained the collective characteristics
that make up human nature is natural selection. (If you think
otherwise, you probably should not be reading this list.)
So you can predict that the elements of human nature were (over
evolutionary time in the EEA) good for gene survival. The same
follows for derived matters such as "natural law."
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Do you think you are addressing the same subject?<br>
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- s<br>
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