Should chimpanzees have the same legal rights as humans?

[Jeff]

Wow, these liberals are going crazy, Chimps should have the same rights as Humans :eek: yes this is the way things go when their is no morals in the country.

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[fj1200]

yes this is the way things go when their is no morals in the country.

Libs are whacked but I disagree. IMO this is an excess of morality where people expand their moral sphere to grant human rights to non-human entities.

[Perianne]

Yes. And we should have a right to marry them. :)

[revelarts]

Willing to give HUMAN rights to chimpanzees but not to unborn HUMANS.
Plea for human rights for chimpanzees but don't see the right of humans not to make a wedding cake.
Willing to give HUMAN rights to chimpanzees but not to HUMANS in persistent comas or similar.
Plea for human rights for chimpanzees but talking harshly about homosexuality is a HATE Crime.
But speaking harshly against chrsitains and Christianity is "free speech".

When people leave the judeo-christian foundation of Human Rights, rights, and what's Human, all definitions spin off the rails into a void of emotional confusions.

[revelarts]

http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/judge-reverses-human-rights-status-for-chimpanzees/

Judge reverses ‘human rights’ status for chimpanzees (http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/judge-reverses-human-rights-status-for-chimpanzees/)


​The hopes and dreams of millions of chimps were dashed in an instant Tuesday when a judge affirmed that an animal-rights group had gone too far by saying she’d granted them “human rights.”Manhattan Supreme Court Ju​stice Barbara Jaffe acknowledged that she inadvertently​ got turned into a monkey’s uncle by signing court papers​,​ submitted by​ the animal-rights activist​s, that ​inadvertently bestowed human status on two chimpanzees being used for biomedical research at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
Proving the movie maxim uttered by Charlton Heston that “some apes, it seems, are more equal than others,” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes)Jaffe on Monday signed a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the primates, named Hercules and Leo.
The judicial command, Latin for “have the body,” is used to determine the legality of a prisoner’s confinement — raising the specter of Cornelius and Zira’s appearance before a Presidential Commission in 1971’s “Escape from the Planet of the Apes.”
But Jaffe got madder than a gorilla ​handling an American Tourister suitcase (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-e96m4730) when the Nonhuman Rights Project — which wants Hercules and Leo sent to a South Florida sanctuary — claimed that she had “implicitly determined that Hercules and Leo are ‘persons.'”
Jaffe issued an amended order Tuesday that crossed out the words “Writ of Habeas Corpus.”
She also had her principal court attorney send out an email blasting the activists’ “inaccurate press release” and insisting that her order merely scheduled a May 6 hearing in the case.
In a subsequent “clarifying statement,” the Nonhuman Rights Project said that “the court believes at minimum that the chimpanzees could be possibly legal persons…without deciding that they are.”

[fj1200]

^I bet her clerk got an earful that day.

[Jeff]

http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/judge-reverses-human-rights-status-for-chimpanzees/

Judge reverses ‘human rights’ status for chimpanzees (http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/judge-reverses-human-rights-status-for-chimpanzees/)

I was just amazed this was even a issue.

[Balu]

The world is going crazy. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/madhouse/wacko2.gif
But the most serious and saddest thing is that there is "Overtone Window" which may be shifted. Those who are older could see themselves how it is happening.



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