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Originally Posted by sircastor
I disagree. Natural rights have been defined as a product of simply being alive. Some people call them unalienable rights, some call them God-given rights. Whatever the case, they define us to having the natural rights of Life, Liberty, and Property. The natural rights define what laws should be. We know killing is wrong and so we create a law which makes it unacceptable to kill. The law doesn't define that it's wrong to kill, just that the group has decided there will be consequences for the action. From there, we do create laws that are defined solely on the basis of civil requirement/desire. They do find root in natural rights though.
As for point-of-sale, it's at Amazon's servers, and is pretty much like buying anything else on the web. The only difference is the method of delivery.
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But killing is NOT wrong. Murder is wrong, but the simple act of killing is not wrong. To state that all killing is wrong bars one from self-defense (for there will be times when self-defense cannot be limited to driving off an attacker).
The difference is that murder is an act of aggression, pure and simple, while causing death in an act of self-defense is not.
Derek