Sep 2015
if law is written by man then the law cannot take away a man's right to write the law
or a man's right to be a man- if the law is constrained by man then
the law has no control over fundamental humanity, those rights to life, liberty,
and self-authority. if the law is written by man then the law cannot cause a man
to forfeit these rights, because these rights do not belong to the law, but to the man
and if a man does not have these rights then the law is invalid and means nothing
if a man is not a man, if humanity has no value, then from whence does the law arise?
Why does the law mean anything at all if humanity is nothing?
or a man's right to be a man- if the law is constrained by man then
the law has no control over fundamental humanity, those rights to life, liberty,
and self-authority. if the law is written by man then the law cannot cause a man
to forfeit these rights, because these rights do not belong to the law, but to the man
and if a man does not have these rights then the law is invalid and means nothing
if a man is not a man, if humanity has no value, then from whence does the law arise?
Why does the law mean anything at all if humanity is nothing?
thinking about torture and the false idea that a man forfeits his rights as a human being once having broken the law. Your humanity does not disappear merely because you have disobeyed a civil institution. The civil institution has no power over your natural and real humanity and the civil institution cannot give someone else the right to remove that from you. Our humanity is not so transient, not so easily taken away that any law bound can bind or loose our natural rights at the case of any transgression.
