One common, flip criticism by opponents of natural law is: who is to establish the alleged truths about man? The answer is not who but what: mans reason. Mans reason is objective, i.e., it can be employed by all men to yield truths about the world. To ask what is mans nature is to invite the answer. Go thou and study and find out! It is as if one man were to assert that the nature of copper were open to rational investigation and a critic were to challenge him to “prove” this immediately by setting forth on the spot all the laws that have been discovered about copper. - Murray Rothbard, Ethics of Liberty
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