It didn’t take long. “Spain’s Parliament has voiced its support for the rights of great apes to life and freedom.” We now have no qualms about aborting human babies, but to infringe the right of an animal to freedom, that’s just plain wrong. Oh yes, it is a mad world we live in.
The Spanish ape population declined to comment. (I think… I couldn’t understand his answer.)
I’m all for looking after animals. But you don’t need to grant them ‘human’ rights to achieve that. Stopping the bull-fighting might be a start.
When will we decide the insanity has gone far enough? Why stop at apes? If humans are just another animal, surely we should also offer these rights to all species? Pity, I liked eating meat. And I’m having trouble persuading my cockroaches to leave – since it would violate their rights to forcefully remove them or, dare I even mention it, kill them.
I will be rightly criticised for this slippery slope argument; I don’t care. It is not a fallacy to name our foundations for what they are. It is indeed a slippery slope; for we have indeed begun to slip. At least now some might begin to realise the full implications of their philosophy.
(ht Craig)
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I thought that this was coming, but I had no idea that it was coming this soon. :-S
Interesting…
Shouldn’t a naturalistic society follow this logic:
– study nature
– discover reality
– adapt humankind
Whereas a naturalistic society seems to follow this logic:
– study nature
– reject religion
– uphold morals
– adapt animals
I didn’t think it was coming this soon either.
Good point jpj! While we are raising animals, we could just as easily lower humans – since, apparently, rights are given to humans by humans because we are humans. Save for that, we have none.