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Even forbidding killing isn't a natural law. In many societies it has been legal to kill slaves, animals, foreigners, gays, people who break the artificial laws

Even forbidding killing isn't a natural law. In many societies it has been legal to kill slaves, animals, foreigners, gays, people who break the artificial laws, etc. So killing is often seen as good for society. No laws of property ownership, right to life, right to freedom, etc are natural. They're just things that some societies, sometimes have decided are worth restricting.

ken47 11y ago
To quote the parent to your comment: "Natural laws are laws that any rational nation would arrive at..."
- m_eiman 11y ago
  "Rational" isn't objective; it's apparently rational for parts of the US to kill its citizens for committing certain crimes, while most developed nations do not.
- Asbostos 11y ago
  Every country with an armed army or police force would be classed as irrational by that standard.