Tom W. Bell
proposes the following update to the pledge of allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to the laws of the United States of America, on condition that it respect my rights, natural, constitutional, and statutory, with liberty and justice for all.
That's a pledge I could make, despite my skepticism about the use of the term "natural rights." I do think there are moral rights entailed by the combination of certain common human values and empirical facts. (
This conversation between Will Wilkinson and Shaun Nichols about Nichols' book,
Sentimental Rules, suggests one way of getting to moral rules I find far more plausible than the natural rights/natural law tradition.)
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