No right is absolute

[JDPriestly]

175. A human baby cannot sur

So the idea that we have unalienable rights is defined by certain natural limitations that we have as humans.

We are not lone wolves. Human beings who seek to live alone by themselves have to find a spiritual path or go crazy. Most people cannot do that. And even human beings who try to live by themselves have needs that cannot be satisfied without other people. I lived for a year in a tiny town in a country in which I could only speak a few words of the language. There was one other person there who spoke English. I assure you, I still found ways to communicate with people around me -- to buy eggs and milk, for example. In a situation like that, our social needs compel us to learn the foreign language. We cannot survive without at least sign language or some way to deal with others.

It is possible to live a solitary life for a limited period, but a person becomes very strange if they are alone too much. People on death row go through that torment. We are very social beings. It is in our nature. We develop a lot of social needs in our infancy. A baby cries for its mother's milk. That is the law of nature -- that a human baby cannot, cannot ever survive without nurture.

That is the true "natural law": human beings must live in a social context -- in infancy for basic survival. And as adult humans, we need to live in a society for the survival of our sanity and also to meet our physical needs.