Natural rights are legal principles that arise from human nature. They include human, civil, and moral rights. Laws protect legal rights, but natural rights may be challenged if they are not protected. Liberty and the relationship between laws and people’s lives affect many areas of the world. Those who seek to protect natural rights often cite a moral basis to support their thinking. World organizations work to protect natural rights and eliminate discrimination.
Natural rights can be described as legal principles that arise from human nature rather than legislative or judicial actions. In this definition, natural rights include human rights, civil rights and moral rights.
There is a presumption in society that the law exists to prevent anarchy. On the one hand we have the law and on the other hand there is what is generally assumed to be disorder and chaos. There are laws to protect people’s legal rights, but these laws are sometimes challenged or overturned if they fail to protect the individual’s natural rights. The protection of civil, moral and human rights depends on society, but also often requires human effort to enforce.
Issues of liberty and the relationship between local, state and federal laws and people’s lives affect many areas of the world. The law often comes under scrutiny because it sometimes maintains oppressive social conditions while at the same time trying to free people from oppression. Natural rights advocates may consider conditions in prisons to violate the natural rights of prisoners, while regulations requiring only the basic human rights of nutrition, sanitation, and shelter are typically followed.
When people gather and demonstrate for civil rights, local laws are sometimes in place that prevent picketing and demonstrating without a permit. In such situations, the rights of individuals to protest unfair treatment may be undermined by their obligation to obey government authority. At such times, human liberty may sometimes be declared the higher law to justify ignoring law enforcement, but that may not always be the case.
Those who seek to protect natural rights often cite a moral basis to support their thinking. In the abortion debate, pro-choice advocates generally support the rights of the pregnant woman, while pro-life advocates are concerned with the rights of the unborn child. Both groups support human rights, but may approach the issue from different points of view.
Laws that empower government officials to stop and question people about their citizenship can be seen as racial profiling, which can violate an individual’s natural rights. Such a law can also be seen as protecting legal citizens by upholding a country’s immigration standards. It can be difficult to determine which rights should prevail: those of a person subjected to a possibly unfair search or those of legal citizens who want the government to enforce the law.
There are world organizations to protect the natural rights of all people. These organizations may seek to eliminate discrimination based on gender, age or ethnicity. They usually advocate for political freedom and sometimes work to protect people from inhumane treatment during times of war. Many of these organizations choose to focus on human natural rights, expose human rights violations, and hold offenders accountable.
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