what is the difference between natural crime and legal crime?

Answer 1

isn't legal crime an oxymoron?

Answer 2

Natural crime presumes a common morality, and a society agreement that everyone should behave the same way in certain areas.

It's based on the principle that most religions and cultures tend to find the same things objectionable. But it's a flawed assumption, because many things that one culture may think are universal aren't really.

Take murder -- most cultures think that the prohibition against murder is universal. But historically, many cultures have allowed murder for revenge (such as in duels), murder of people of a particular race or religion or gender, killing of criminals (which by a mob would still be murder).

Legal crime is the theory that rather than trying to guess what "universal" standards apply, we just write down what is allowed and what is not, so everyone knows and there is no guesswork.

Answer 3

Usually, I've seen reference to natural laws or rights as opposed to legal laws (apparently redundant - maybe, maybe not) or legal rights.

When I think of natural rights, I think of the "unalienable rights" described in the Declaration of Independence: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

This falls in the realm of philosophy. I think that much valid debate goes on - I won't belabor answering the question by cataloging some other valid views. For me, I view rights as concept that facilitate social cooperation. To be legitimate, they must be universally applied at all times and in all places. For instance, we can probably agree that every human being has a right not to be murdered. However, even though its goal is laudable universal health care is not a natural right - there may be times when the services constituting health care are simply not available.

In contrast to natural law, there is political law. Here, we criminalize behaviors in which no rights have been violated other than the right that the state has taken upon itself to regulate the lives of its citizens. Here, recreational drug use and black market activities come to mind.

While not specifically about natural rights/law/crime per se, the article linked below I think has some interesting material that you might want to see.

Answer 4

Never heard of natural crime, can you explain it further or where you heard of it.