Tuesday, December 11, 2012

President Obama, Natural Law, and Inherent Contradictions

Well.  That's interesting.  Excerpts:
..."There is no doubt that what I retained in my politics is a sense that the only way I could have a sturdy sense of identity of who I was depended on digging beneath the surface differences of people," Obama said during an interview on 10 November 2011. "The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life. So that is at the core of who I am."...
Almost like, well...this. Excerpts:
In English this term is frequently employed as equivalent to the laws of nature, meaning the order which governs the activities of the material universe. Among the Roman jurists natural law designated those instincts and emotions common to man and the lower animals, such as the instinct of self-preservation and love of offspring. In its strictly ethical application—the sense in which this article treats it—the natural law is the rule of conduct which is prescribed to us by the Creator in the constitution of the nature with which He has endowed us...
But those who support President Obama sometimes sound like this. Excerpts:
...Rights are man made. So is the notion of right and wrong...The harsh truth is that mankind lacks natural law and that you only have as many rights as the political capital you own...
And the reason for that finds its roots in this.

I don't know what to conclude.

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