> You decide what your "natural" rights are. If the government can't find some way to slot them into its existing laws, then you will eventually have a problem

> You decide what your "natural" rights are. If the government can't find some way to slot them into its existing laws, then you will eventually have a problem with each other. Going back to the declaration of independence, the US had no more right to be independent than the Confederate States did. "After the Americans declared their independence, they had to win it by force." Similarly, the Confederate States had to do the same. I think most of us have a strangely complacent thought process when it comes to individual rights. We think that rights are eternal and they will just exist forever. However, it seems that if we don't defend the rights they will morph or even go away if they are inconvenient to someone in power.