3 ms·
Well, we don't hand out rights to animals who aren't smart enough to understand them. The monkey was smart enough to use the camera, I dunno...
by orblivion 15y ago
Well, we don't hand out rights to animals who aren't smart enough to understand them. The monkey was smart enough to use the camera, I dunno...
- regularfry 15y agoOoh, that's a dangerous line of thought. We certainly do respect rights of people who aren't smart enough to understand them; we also protect the welfare of animals in other ways despite their not being able to comprehend that we generally choose to treat their health and comfort as a "right". The personhood horizon doesn't lie on a speciation boundary, and "rights" as extended by us go much further.