Monday, July 22, 2019

Do we have the will and brains to deepen the American definition of human nature, natural law, and natural rights?


Our nation is gradually falling apart from its experiment with unnatural multiculturalism, so the question is, do we have the will and brains to deepen the American definition of human nature, natural law, and natural rights, or will we limp along and slowly fall like the Roman Empire, or have radical revolution take us who knows where?

Conservative's rightly tell us that natural law was important to the Founders and that they based many of our laws on what they believed we are naturally as human beings in our human nature and in nature itself, and they called these natural rights; that is what they meant by all people having equal and inalienable rights, the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. They did not see a natural or divine right of kings to rule over the freedom of commoners---they were trying to escape English kings.

The Founders probably would have agreed with much of the sociobiological definition of human nature, which came many years later and grew out of the work of Charles Darwin, saying that human nature is primarily and genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, and religious-making, among other conservative things, and they would call those natural rights. But the Founders probably would not have agreed with the rest of the sociobiological definition of human nature which says that human nature is also hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. And there is the rub.

But not to worry conservatives too much, the Constitutional separation of powers and states could allow for human nature and natural rights to also be defined as hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. It might take a few Constitutional amendments to get up to speed, but conservatism is also about change, that is, change within the system and not radical change. Ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in line with the whole of human nature, natural law, and natural rights, could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, and protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by federalism.

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