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To quote the parent to your comment: "Natural laws are laws that any rational nation would arrive at..."



"Rational" isn't objective; it's apparently rational for parts of the US to kill its citizens for committing certain crimes, while most developed nations do not.


Every country with an armed army or police force would be classed as irrational by that standard.




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