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Chimpanzees granted 'legal persons' status to defend their rights in court
What do you want, citations for research papers? I can probably provide some later. Animal cognition is an area of a lot of active research, are you really disputing that?
As for chimps being intelligent, I will cite the following as evidence: find me a chimp able to pass a Turing test. You can't. They aren't smart enough.
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What do you want, citations for research papers? I can probably provide some later. Animal cognition is an area of a lot of active research, are you really disputing that?
It took me 10 seconds to google and provide evidence.
As for chimps being intelligent, I will cite the following as evidence: find me a chimp able to pass a Turing test. You can't. They aren't smart enough.
Have any more irrelevant scenarios to make up? The strawman is strong with this one.
How is a turing test irrelevant? Give a chimp a keyboard and try to communicate with it. Oops, you can't, chimps aren't smart enough to understand abstract concepts like language. Or only marginally so at best.
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I brought that up specifically because chimp reproduction is often incredibly violent.
Yes, but no one except the media and the plaintiffs are really saying this makes chimps "legal persons". From the article:
Opponents of Wise’s fight for limited rights for chimpanzees warn that the judge’s granting of the petition does not mean she endorses “personhood” for chimpanzees. Richard Cupp, a law professor at California’s Pepperdine University said “we should avoid reading too much into this document ordering a hearing.”
“It seems quite unlikely that a judge would intend to make such an exceptionally controversial decision that a chimpanzee is a person without even hearing arguments from the other side,” Cupp said. The suggestion that nonhuman animals are persons is “new terrain for judges”, he added.
After all, it's just a hearing.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Yeah, it's not like they're going to take over the world after we blow it up.
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O
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