[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
If you violate another person’s rights, yes a natural right can be removed.[/quote]
Can you detail your reasoning behind this?
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
There is nothing inherently anti-human rights about putting people in prison.[/quote]
Wouldn’t denying an individual their ability to determine their own fate (I use this phrasing for convenience’s sake, and because I hope y’all recognize what I mean by it) be anti-natural right?
Of course, I’d imagine the fellow is thrown into prison (having his/her natural right stripped off) precisely because he/she did something that violated another’s natural right in some form or fashion.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
You are essentially arguing that all punishment violates natural rights, like you can’t lock up a rapist. Nor, I guess could you defend yourself. [/quote]
Not really. Rather, I’m curious how natural right can incorporate punishment.
Punishing someone requires you to do something to someone-the very opposite of natural rights as described in the post I quote here.
And this really just goes straight back to the question I ask at the start of this post.[/quote]
Ideally, punishment would actually maximize the ability of humans to possess natural rights. through both prevention and removing persons who violate others from the general population. Hence putting a murderer to death can actually preserve more life than it takes. locking up a rapist and thereby preventing more rapes isn’t anti natural rights. Neither is self defense. You are at minimum preserving just as many rights of the non-aggressor as removing rights from the aggressor.
If you want to get into punishments for victimless crimes, yeah, I can buy that those are anti-natural rights. [/quote]
A very low percentage of murders are repeat offenders (like 1%). If your goal is to preserve maximum natural rights wouldn’t it make sense to limit their sentence as low as possible to maximize the overall natural rights?
Also how are you weighting the non-mudrer cases against each other? Surely a rape is denying someone their natural rights but for how long? Even if some guy raped 1 woman a day for the rest of his life, him serving life in prison is overall more natural rights denied than if he was free.