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The Great Ape Project


Why shouldn't apes have a declaration of human rights?


Shouldn't an ape be entitled to legal personhood status before a corporation?


Isn't an ape more like a person whereas a corporation is of a person.










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Great Ape Personhood



Philosophically, why wouldn't people push for Personhood For Apes BEFORE corporations?



Not to be too scientific but aren't we all of the same Hominoid family of great apes?


The family Hominidae consists of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and Humans, collectively known as the "great apes".





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...................................Humans are apes BEFORE we are anything else.



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There is serious consideration being given,here in the uk, to giving chimps something like human rights, but this is only happening, AFAIK, in some moral-philosophy think tanks. Still it's a start.
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Bill Wiltrack wrote:Humans are apes BEFORE we are anything else.
No, we're not, we're Primates along with our cousins.

Your classification models are pretty much human constructions whereas DNA shows a different Tree of Life.

The reason the 'Apes' don't get personhood is they don't demand it hard enough.
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Bill what is a person? What (here is a new word for you) makes a person part of the moral community?
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A person is someone who possesses a persona or mask.





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No, I would help you out, but you don't listen.
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Advocacy and the Animal Enterprise

Thursday, December 15, 2011
by Wells C. Bennett



Breaking in Boston: animal rights activists today filed a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (“AETA”), which reportedly makes it a “terrorism” crime, among other things, to “intentionally damage[] or cause[] the loss of any real or personal property (including animals or records) used by an animal enterprise.”



The plaintiffs allege that the AETA chills them from advocating publicly for the rights of animals – a lawful activity that, naturally, stands to cause “animal enterprises” like Glaxo or Ruth’s Chris to lose “property” in the form of business profits.



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have you actually read anything about chimp behaviour

chimps are evil

if they had human intellect the earth would be a radioactive wasteland by now
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War, greed, racism, intolerance, rape, torture, cheating, stealing, envy, lying, murder, yeah, I guess you're right.


Never thought about it that way before...




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http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent. ... panzees%22

try actually reading something other than union propaganda for a change

its would be safer for a human to live in nazi-occupied Europe than for a chimp - especially a male chimp - to live among chimps

by human standards chimps are sociopaths

fortunately their capacity for evil is limited by their intelligence
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Unfortunately our capacity for evil is unlimited by our intelligence.






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Look what those apes do if they catch one of us...














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They keep us there in cages for the rest of our lives...Their kids look at us and smile.






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When I think about it man kills apes for PROFIT.

Corporations are the ultimate PROFIT machines.



Apes...and just about ALL things touched by man are eventually killed for PROFIT.



The GOD PROFIT.








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