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“There is, however, no such thing as natural law and a perennial standard of what is just and what is unjust. Nature is alien to the idea of right and wrong. “Thou shalt not kill” is certainly not part of natural law. “Thou shalt not kill” is certainly not part of natural law. The characteristic feature of natural conditions is that one animal is intent upon killing other animals and that many species cannot preserve their own life except by killing others. The notion of right and wrong is a human device, a utilitarian precept designed to make social cooperation under the division of labor possible. All moral rules and human laws are means for the realization of definite ends. There is no method available for the appreciation of their goodness or badness other than to scrutinize their usefulness for the attainment of the ends chosen and aimed at”

-Ludwig von Mises

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peterzander 2y ago

So killing babies is not wrong?

SovereignOne 2y ago

Moralistically yes.

peterzander 2y ago

Explain!

SovereignOne 2y ago

The natural world doesn’t recognize our human constructs of morality and law, so trying to use those same constructs to enumerate and explain natural events we may see as humanistic is a pointless endeavor, regardless of how useful they may be for maintaining our society as a whole. I’m not advocating for murder, but I think the point here is that the ever-turning world couldn’t care less if I did.

peterzander 2y ago

SO CHILD SACRIFICE IS MORAL?

SovereignOne 2y ago

No, as I said above, moralistically I feel it’s wrong. The intangible thing we call the world doesn’t care, and the world keeps spinning. The only point I was trying to make is judging human notions by “natural laws” is a functionally dead end road at the end of it all. The above quote is just an extreme example to drive home a point that gets applied to many aspects of daily life, most of the time without notice, to issues that can have a larger effect than is maybe realized.

The Beave 2y ago

And that's where I have to depart from Mises.