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'''Natural rights''' are the rights based on natural law. The philosopher [[John Locke]] included rights to [[life]], liberty and property, among these. His belief was that citizens had to obey [[government]]’s laws, and the government would uphold their rights in return.
'''Natural rights''' are the rights based on natural law. The philosopher [[John Locke]] included rights to [[life]], liberty and property, among these. His belief was that citizens had to obey [[government]]’s laws, and the government would uphold their rights in return.
Natural rights are to be contrasted with synthetic rights, which are mere social fabrications of a society and are not based on universal principles. This distinction is often ignored by moral degenerates who lack the moral clarity to distinguish transcendent human values from relativist ones.
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