Originally posted by wildman Clearly this is not true. If it was we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.
This is attempting to elevate a more or less arbitary social value to the level of reality of, say, a law of physics.
I am not aware of, for instance, any human constitution that finds it necessary to codify the first law of thermodynamics.
Death by "murder" is only possible within a human social context and does not exist in nature.
The quote you refer to was:
"It is not society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill—but the inalienable individual right of another man to live.
What this means is that objective reality demands consistency here. What ties this to reality is the
law of non contradiction. One cannot acknowledge that, which one denies exists. The claim I quoted, was making the point that one cannot deny life and then claim a right to have it. Thus,
IF you accept anothers right to live
THEN you may not logically murder him. Logic is based on the non contradictory nature of reality. I would hope all men's affairs took notice of reality and were thereby objective, and not " a more or less arbitary social value"