Originally posted by Big Crunch
I doubt see why you would delimit based on species?
I don't believe rights are given for our survival and prosperity. Humans have survived and prospered for millenia without such rights. For many centuries the 'white species' survived and prospered and justified slavery using an analagous type of argument you gave, saying that 'blacks' were sub-human.
I doubt see why you would delimit based on species?
I don't believe rights are given for our survival and prosperity. Humans have survived and prospered for millenia without such rights. For many centuries the 'white species' survived and prospered and justified slavery using an analagous type of argument you gave, saying that 'blacks' were sub-human.
Oh, and I don´t mean we shouldn´t care totally about other species, I just don´t think chimps should have equal rights.
Edit: I must have been somehow on drugs yesterday, because I agreed with your 1st post. What I meant was, I gree with what you said initially ("I don't really care about the genetics or the nomenclature. What is more important is how 'human' they are in their abilities and thought processes.")
But I don´t agree what you said afterwards about their rights, because I doubt that they are really so much "human".
Just to clarify....

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