THE SOURCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NATURAL RIGHTS. All animals that can move seek to

THE SOURCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NATURAL RIGHTS.

All animals that can move seek to acquire.

What they acquire they treat as their property: they defend it.

Cooperation is disproportionately rewarding for acquisition.

But cooperation invites free riding, so we punish free riders (parasites) to preserve the disproportionate rewards of cooperation.

This is the source of natural law.

The desire for Liberty competes with the desire for consumption, which competes for the desire for insurance, all of which compete with the desire for dominance or cheating ( free riding/parasitism).

Hence Liberty is a desire of a minority, security the desire of the majority; and those who desire Liberty and security conspire to control those who wish to live parasitically.

This is the correct origin of natural law.

Natural rights are something we often desire.

So we advertise that we desire them.

But to exist we must construct them. The only way to construct them is thru exchange of them as mutual guarantee and mutual insurance.

Attempts to cast rights as existential are attempts to obtain those rights without paying the high cost of them: the reciprocal insurance of others against the abridgment of them by third parties.

This is correct.

Libertinism states all of this falsely as an act of fraud: escaping the western traditional contract that only those who will fight to protect property may enter into the agreement for reciprocal grant of insurance.

That is the full answer Uncolored by the false promise of libertinism.