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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