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How Can We Tell If a Behavior Violates Natural Law (Is Inherently Deviant) or Not?

How Can We Tell If a Behavior Violates Natural Law (Is Inherently Deviant) or Not?

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Jul 29, 2025
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A behavior is inherently deviant if it violates what I call Natural Law. We can determine Natural Law by looking at many cultures all around the world and looking for frequently proscribed behavior. The whole human race can’t all be wrong. If it is we’re screwed, rude, and tattooed.

We can tell if behavior is deviant or violates Natural Law by asking ourselves

What if everyone/most people were like this?

What if most people had blue eyes? Ok, a bit weird but we could hang. If people asked us why we could just lie and say we were all Swedes and we’d skate by without further inquiries.

What if all of the men were at least six feet tall? We might to redesign a doorway here and there and we’d hear

How’s the weather up there?

a lot more, but overall we could make do.

What if most people were aggressive, belligerent and screamed their way through life? The Jewish people have been around for 3,000 years, so if they can do it so we could swing it. The nicer groups would all hate us and maybe pogro…

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