Peter Singer to Court: Make Chimps Persons!

Evolution News and Views ^ | October 27, 2014 | Wesley J. Smith

[bgill]

Great idea! They could then marry cross species, vote, legally sign contracts and serve as POTUS.

[elcid1970]

During WWII a Navy pilot in the Pacific trained a local orangutang to don his flightsuit & thumb over the starter on his F6F Hellcat, so he could sleep through midnight alerts.

Worked like a charm until the night they jumped for real and the Hellcat pilot watched helplessly as his plane took off with the orangutang at the controls.

Of course he was court martialed; what made him bitter about the whole episode was that the orangutang was later promoted to lieutenant commander.

;^)

[GladesGuru]

The electorate made one POTUS!

[GladesGuru]

“In some parts of Africa Pete Singer would be considered “bush meat”.”

As a matter of fact, the “Indigenous Peoples” of both Central and South America were Stone Age Cannibals who ate their enemies for thousands of years.

Think about that the next time you see those “Bronze People” standing around at Home Depot. Or anywhere else.

Think about how they loudly proclaim their adherence to their “Culture”.

Now - think about what those “Bronze Persons” think about you, Mr. & Mrs. White American”.

Got Caloric Value?

Get Guns/ammo!

[miss marmelstein]

That’s hilarious.

[a fool in paradise]

We tried that in the 60s and all we got was revolution.

[GeronL]

Those are monkeys, I glanced at it at first and thought it was some new rap by MO

[Buckeye McFrog]

How else you gonna get them registered to vote in 2016?

[Slings and Arrows]

But as I said, even that isn't what the case is really all about. It's just the pretext. For if some animals can be elevated to personhood, it also means some people will be demoted to non-personhood -- essentially dehumanization, for which Singer has advocated for decades.

"The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution."
--David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.

[a fool in paradise]

David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.

Let me guess, the unnamed SDS leader was Karl Marx?

Am I right?

[Slings and Arrows]

Let me guess, the unnamed SDS leader was Karl Marx? Am I right?

Maybe, but he'd've been getting on a bit in the 1960's.