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70:9.1 [[Nature]] confers no [[rights]] on man, only life and a world in which to live it. [[Nature]] does not even confer the [[right]] to live, as might be deduced by considering what would likely happen if an unarmed man met a [[hungry]] tiger face to face in the [[primitive]] forest. [[Society]]'s prime gift to man is [[security]].
70:9.2 [[Gradually]] [[society]] asserted its [[rights]] and, at the present time, they are:
*1. [[Assurance]] of [[food]] supply.
*2. [[Military]] [[defense]]—security through preparedness.
*3. Internal [[peace]] preservation—prevention of [[personal]] [[violence]] and social disorder.
*4. [[Sex]] [[control]]—[[marriage]], the [[family]] [[institution]].
*5. [[Property]]—the right to own.
*6. Fostering of [[individual]] and [[group]] [[competition]].
*7. Provision for [[educating]] and [[training]] [[youth]].
*8. Promotion of trade and [[commerce]]—[[industrial]] [[development]].
*9. Improvement of [[labor]] conditions and rewards.
*10. The guarantee of the [[freedom]] of [[religious]] [[practices]] to the end that all of these other [[social]] [[activities]] may be exalted by becoming [[spiritually]] [[motivated]].
70:9.3 When [[rights]] are old beyond [[knowledge]] of [[origin]], they are often called [[natural]] rights. But [[human]] [[rights]] are not really [[natural]]; they are entirely [[social]]. They are [[relative]] and ever changing, being no more than the rules of the [[game]]—recognized [[adjustments]] of relations governing the ever-changing [[phenomena]] of [[human]] [[competition]].
70:9.4 What may be regarded as right in one age may not be so regarded in another. The [[survival]] of large numbers of defectives and degenerates is not because they have any [[natural]] [[right]] thus to encumber twentieth-century [[civilization]], but simply because the [[society]] of the age, the [[mores]], thus [[decrees]].
70:9.5 Few [[human]] [[rights]] were [[recognized]] in the European [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]; then every man belonged to someone else, and rights were only [[privileges]] or [[favors]] granted by [[state]] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church church]. And the revolt from this [[error]] was equally erroneous in that it led to the [[belief]] that all men are born [[equal]].
70:9.6 The weak and the inferior have always contended for [[equal]] [[rights]]; they have always insisted that the [[state]] compel the strong and superior to supply their wants and otherwise make good those deficiencies which all too often are the [[natural]] result of their own indifference and indolence.
70:9.7 But this [[equality]] [[ideal]] is the child of [[civilization]]; it is not found in [[nature]]. Even [[culture]] itself [[demonstrates]] conclusively the [[inherent]] inequality of [[men]] by their very unequal capacity therefor. The sudden and nonevolutionary realization of supposed [[natural]] [[equality]] would quickly throw civilized man back to the crude usages of [[primitive]] ages. [[Society]] cannot offer [[equal]] [[rights]] to all, but it can [[promise]] to [[administer]] the varying rights of each with [[fairness]] and equity. It is the [[business]] and [[duty]] of [[society]] to provide the child of [[nature]] with a fair and peaceful [[opportunity]] to pursue self-[[maintenance]], [[participate]] in [[Reproduction|self-perpetuation]], while at the same time enjoying some measure of [[self-gratification]], the sum of all three [[constituting]] [[human]] [[happiness]].
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[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]
70:9.1 [[Nature]] confers no [[rights]] on man, only life and a world in which to live it. [[Nature]] does not even confer the [[right]] to live, as might be deduced by considering what would likely happen if an unarmed man met a [[hungry]] tiger face to face in the [[primitive]] forest. [[Society]]'s prime gift to man is [[security]].
70:9.2 [[Gradually]] [[society]] asserted its [[rights]] and, at the present time, they are:
*1. [[Assurance]] of [[food]] supply.
*2. [[Military]] [[defense]]—security through preparedness.
*3. Internal [[peace]] preservation—prevention of [[personal]] [[violence]] and social disorder.
*4. [[Sex]] [[control]]—[[marriage]], the [[family]] [[institution]].
*5. [[Property]]—the right to own.
*6. Fostering of [[individual]] and [[group]] [[competition]].
*7. Provision for [[educating]] and [[training]] [[youth]].
*8. Promotion of trade and [[commerce]]—[[industrial]] [[development]].
*9. Improvement of [[labor]] conditions and rewards.
*10. The guarantee of the [[freedom]] of [[religious]] [[practices]] to the end that all of these other [[social]] [[activities]] may be exalted by becoming [[spiritually]] [[motivated]].
70:9.3 When [[rights]] are old beyond [[knowledge]] of [[origin]], they are often called [[natural]] rights. But [[human]] [[rights]] are not really [[natural]]; they are entirely [[social]]. They are [[relative]] and ever changing, being no more than the rules of the [[game]]—recognized [[adjustments]] of relations governing the ever-changing [[phenomena]] of [[human]] [[competition]].
70:9.4 What may be regarded as right in one age may not be so regarded in another. The [[survival]] of large numbers of defectives and degenerates is not because they have any [[natural]] [[right]] thus to encumber twentieth-century [[civilization]], but simply because the [[society]] of the age, the [[mores]], thus [[decrees]].
70:9.5 Few [[human]] [[rights]] were [[recognized]] in the European [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]; then every man belonged to someone else, and rights were only [[privileges]] or [[favors]] granted by [[state]] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church church]. And the revolt from this [[error]] was equally erroneous in that it led to the [[belief]] that all men are born [[equal]].
70:9.6 The weak and the inferior have always contended for [[equal]] [[rights]]; they have always insisted that the [[state]] compel the strong and superior to supply their wants and otherwise make good those deficiencies which all too often are the [[natural]] result of their own indifference and indolence.
70:9.7 But this [[equality]] [[ideal]] is the child of [[civilization]]; it is not found in [[nature]]. Even [[culture]] itself [[demonstrates]] conclusively the [[inherent]] inequality of [[men]] by their very unequal capacity therefor. The sudden and nonevolutionary realization of supposed [[natural]] [[equality]] would quickly throw civilized man back to the crude usages of [[primitive]] ages. [[Society]] cannot offer [[equal]] [[rights]] to all, but it can [[promise]] to [[administer]] the varying rights of each with [[fairness]] and equity. It is the [[business]] and [[duty]] of [[society]] to provide the child of [[nature]] with a fair and peaceful [[opportunity]] to pursue self-[[maintenance]], [[participate]] in [[Reproduction|self-perpetuation]], while at the same time enjoying some measure of [[self-gratification]], the sum of all three [[constituting]] [[human]] [[happiness]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_70 Go to Paper 70]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]