In response to the Feb. 2 column “Freedom vs. Tyranny: We Have a Choice,” much as I would like to believe that humankind has a natural moral compass leading to an agreed upon standard of natural law, I would think our history proves otherwise. War and subjugation of others are as old as Cain and Abel if you want to be biblical about it, and humans have brought destruction to a high art.

The Founding Fathers didn’t invent inalienable rights, the so-called natural laws.