All of the following principles, for example, seem to be accepted by those who lay down their weapons and reason toward solutions instead: 1.Considerations that justify or impugn one person will, in identical circumstances, justify or impugn another. 2.Rights are to be respected. 3.Obligations are to be fulfilled. 4.Agreements are to be honored. 5.Disputes are to be settled by negotiation, not by force. 6.Those who do not respect the rights of others forfeit rights of their own. Those principles have been taken as defining the field of “natural law,” for the reason that their validity depends
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