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I agree with your first sentence. I do disagree with them though. I don't think there is such a thing as a "non-human person" let alone applying it to the anim

• chc 16y ago
  Then I think you agree with my entire comment. What I meant to get at is, my values and these scientists' values are both uncommon and non-normative, so they're pretty much irrelevant — most people don't care about the intellectual or emotional qualities of the creature in considering whether it's a person. The general heuristic is something along the lines of "Is it identifiably H. sapiens and alive?"