Should apes be granted personhood?
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Should apes be granted personhood?
Should apes be granted personhood and the legal rights that this would confer?
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Yes
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
No.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
You could take their placedevogue wrote:No.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
To what purpose or extent?
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
did they ask for it?
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
I might get cold.pawiz wrote:You could take their placedevogue wrote:No.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Think of the free bananas! There's a solution to every problem.devogue wrote:I might get cold.pawiz wrote:You could take their placedevogue wrote:No.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Jerry Was A Man, Robert A. Heinlein.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
pawiz wrote:Think of the free bananas! There's a solution to every problem.devogue wrote:I might get cold.pawiz wrote:You could take their placedevogue wrote:No.
Because then they would be freed from the Belfast Zoo and they're the only things worth seeing.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
But is there a problem for every solution?pawiz wrote:Think of the free bananas! There's a solution to every problem.
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Why apes? It seems to me certain dolphins would be ahead of them in line, given what we know of their relative intelligence.
Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Cephalopods as well.Warren Dew wrote:Why apes? It seems to me certain dolphins would be ahead of them in line, given what we know of their relative intelligence.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
Well, I was going to mention that in the OP, but I assumed it would come up in the thread anyway. The main reason I specified apes is that they are the only group of animals who have so far had any progress in this area.Warren Dew wrote:Why apes? It seems to me certain dolphins would be ahead of them in line, given what we know of their relative intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood
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Re: Should apes be granted personhood?
If push came to shove, I'd rather have a pint with an ape than a dolphin.Warren Dew wrote:Why apes? It seems to me certain dolphins would be ahead of them in line, given what we know of their relative intelligence.
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