Natural Rights

My Dear Friends,

I wish to write to you today on a topic of much interest to me in hopes that it will find you well and you will have a greater understanding of such matters.

What are natural rights?

Natural rights, are rights you receive by default of being alive and cannot be taken from you without serious bodily harm. Natural rights do not extend to the ability to violate other peoples natural rights. Natural rights are also not given to you they are yours.

Rights such as:

Life, Free Speech, Self Defence, The right to gather and claim resources to ensure your survival and to keep those resources or placeholders of equivalent value of the resources for yourself. Basically, any right acknowledged (NOT GIVEN BY) the US constitution is a natural right and then some.

I want to emphasize, natural rights are rights that exist in the complete absence of government and exist without governmental acknowledgment of them.

Natural rights do not require a government to give them to you nor do they require a government to provide them for you.

As natural rights are the only rights that do not extend to infringement on the natural rights of others it has been argued and I will argue that natural rights are really the only rights that one has or is entitled to they are also the only rights that can not be taken away without bodily harm.

Example: The government makes a law that infringes upon your freedom of speech.

You are still able to exercise free speech they can not actually prevent you from doing so without perhaps cutting out your tongue on in the case of written or typed speech cutting off your hands. You may still use free speech even without their permission or endorsement as you have the facilities to do so and they did not give you those facilities you were born with or developed them through your life.

What a government can do and often does as it would be monstrous to cause bodily harm to prevent the exercise of free speech is to punish the exercise of it. Now I would argue they should not be depriving people of freedom for the exercise of natural rights but they do so in using your free speech it should be noted that some things are worthy and necessary to be said and should be said regardless of the punishment. An example of this may be if your government illegalizes you calling them out on mass crimes against humanity and the grotesque and inhumane murdering of a people group at any time for any reason you should likely say what needs to be said regardless of punishment otherwise your silence is your statement that you deem these acts acceptable.

What does this mean for today's world? In the case of natural rights currently under attack by the government (Right to free speech, self defence, the right to gathering and keeping resources gathered for yourself that are not stolen from others) both where you live and abroad, There is the moral obligation in many cases to disobey and exercise your natural rights in the face of the risk of punishment. In some cases, it is wise to use sound judgment and it is the individual who must make the call on where that line is for themselves. But tell me what you think! Like, Dislike, Share, Counter-Argue, or comment!

Yours, With many regards and well wishes

Becca