ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale) (03/11/85)
> #Arndt: >> How do you KNOW that there is no 'right'???? > #Terry Dineen UUCP: ...{yale,uw-beaver,decvax!wanginst}!apollo!rps >Just a feeling I have. I can't figure out what it means (practically) to say >things like: "X is right" or "Y's have these rights". Some say that men have >an inalienable right to life; however men are alienated from their lives all > the time: death squads, electric chairs. Where'd their "rights" go? Some time ago, I wrote an article which was graced by criticism from all quarters. And deservedly so. For it mentioned a concept I got from a senile & very public magistrate (ex-) Lord Denning: Natural Justice. Natural Justice is Right. It is everything that every thinking person can look at, and say: that is right. So there is no Natural Justice. For every aspect of Justice that Western, Christianity-based morality interpretes as clearly Right, there is a Culture or Political Doctrine which doesn't. Therefore, Right must be the Right of some arbitrary grouping of people: one dictator, the majority of the people, octagenarians etc. And no two countries will come to the same decisions. -Nigel Gale