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you also have a "natural right" to bash a neighbour over the head with that rock and kill him, or do whatever you want - since in our "natural" state there are no laws or methods of behaviour.
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Surely you cannot be as dense as that statement implies.
Laws come from community, which comes from a need to band together to survive. If you kill your neighbor without justification, the rest of your neighbors will kill you. They will all learn that each of them needs to be circumspect in weilding the rock or club against a neighbor. A chief will emerge, usually one of the strongest, who will judge disputes and transgressions. It will be a society of laws.
How long does it take for such a society to form? Years? Months? Would you believe hours, and it will be stable within days.