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Natural rights have a terrible historical record.  Natural rights in the 19th century and earlier considered wives, children and slaves as property, as they had been for millennia.  Look at Patrick Henry, Mr. "Give me liberty or give me death": he was a slave owner, as were many of the other founders of the US who howled for their own liberty, but not that of their wives or slaves.
 
Natural rights have a terrible historical record.  Natural rights in the 19th century and earlier considered wives, children and slaves as property, as they had been for millennia.  Look at Patrick Henry, Mr. "Give me liberty or give me death": he was a slave owner, as were many of the other founders of the US who howled for their own liberty, but not that of their wives or slaves.
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Specific ideas of natural rights are inevitably parochial, because they vary from culture to culture.  A huge amount of anthropology and sociology confirms the variation in ideas of rights that people call natural.
 
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