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    Describing subjects as slaves does not extinguish their n... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A despot can dispose of subjects as he sees fit

    Describing subjects as slaves does not extinguish their natural rights but only describes a wrongful condition, leaving the despot's acts unjust rather than licit.

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    • 1.Rights derive from human nature or dignity, not from legal status or recognition by authorities.
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    • 2.Injustice requires a gap between how things are and how they ought to be; wrongful conditions presuppose violated norms.
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    • 3.Despots cannot create legitimacy through force alone; their acts remain violations even if temporarily unchallenged.
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    • 1.If rights exist but are entirely unenforceable, their practical reality differs little from non-existence for the enslaved.
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    • 2.Labeling an act 'unjust' while deeming it 'licit' creates a distinction without practical difference in a despotic system.
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    • 3.Rights may depend partly on social recognition and institutional frameworks, not solely on abstract natural entitlement.
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