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By their nature, infants and the mentally disabled are not capable of exercising some of their natural rights (such as political enfranchisement, liberty, property rights, etc.). As they progress to adulthood however, and gain adult capacity, their increase in capacity is accompanied by an increase in these natural rights. Criminals by their own actions forfeit natural rights. This is their own doing, not the doing of the State. The Natural Right Definition of Justice - justifies the use of coercive force on the part of the government in ensuring, securing, respecting, and protecting to the individual his life, liberty, property and inalienable rights from those who would trample on them.

⁠— Armon Eaton