On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > I think I can give a useful example here: the ancient Greeks and > Romans also kept slaves. Doing so was acceptable according to > their culture and laws, but we still think it was wrong. > The difference is precisely that we consider freedom to be a > natural right, while copyright is not.
So, a "natural right" is whatever is considered a right according to whatever happen to be the morals of the dominant society of the age, whereas the other type of right is whatever is considered a right (or convenient, or profitable...) according to the laws of the dominant society of the age? ;) Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would be a bad time to try out as a lion-tamer.
