Discuss The Difference of Positive Law and Natural Law. NATURAL LAW : To establish human rights, a different kind of law is necessary , some version of natural law. … If human beings have rights by virtue of their common humanity, it can only be because there are some ‘general moral standards’ that are universal in application;! these standards must, in principle, be discernible by everyone, and, therefore, less obviously but still necessarily, must refer back to some kind of common notion of human flourishing. A citizen can point to specific pieces of legislation or to comm.