animal rights activists want chimp declared a person

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May 7, 2007, 09:15

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
I think we should treat the status of "person" on a league basis, like in football- with a competition for a restricted number of slots available.

In practice, it would work like this- if Chimps get promoted to "person" status, people who read the Daily Mail get relegated to the status of higher primate.

Um, Daily Mail readers are already higher primates (ie. humans, apes, or monkeys). They should be demoted to tarsiers or something.

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