ph907; when speaking "insanely idiotic?" about "rational thought" that you absolutely know nothing, whatsoever, can we discuss Critical Thinking? 

"Path of the Law" Banished?

"The means of the study are a body of reports, of treatises, and of statutes, in this country and in England, extending back for six hundred years, and now increasing annually by hundreds. In these sibylline leaves are gathered the scattered prophecies of the past upon the cases in which the axe will fall.But, as I shall try to show, a legal duty so called is nothing but a prediction that if a man does or omits certain things he will be made to suffer in this or that way by judgment of the court; and so of a legal right...Manifestly, therefore, nothing but confusion of thought can result from assuming that the rights of man in a moral sense are equally rights in the sense of the Constitution and the law..."
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm