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US chimpanzee Tommy 'has no human rights' - court
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| 4 December 2014 Last updated at 16:50 ET
Posted on 12/05/2014 1:38:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
The appeals court in New York state said caged chimpanzee Tommy could not be recognised as a "legal person" as it "cannot bear any legal duties".
The Nonhuman Rights Project had argued that chimps who had such similar characteristics to the humans deserved basic rights, including freedom.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: nonhumanrights
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:38:57 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
To say they had would make liberal evolution teachers jump for joy.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:40:09 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: BenLurkin
Well there goes the next big democratic voting block
To: BenLurkin
I gotta call my ex brother-in-law. "cannot bear any legal duties". He'll love that. No taxes.
/johnny
To: BenLurkin
Well, there goes our next Democrat Senate candidate.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:41:38 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: BenLurkin
Obvious racism. And speciesism.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:41:41 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Thank you for self-censoring.)
To: BenLurkin
But can he marry the vertebrate of his choice?!
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:44:13 PM PST
by
Regulator
To: SkyDancer
Yeah, but think of all the “basic human rights” we would soon be paying for, for them. Housing, food, phones, health care, health insurance, heat, water, schools, extra allowances for having offspring.... it goes on and on.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:44:41 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: BenLurkin
For more than four decades now, American courts won’t even recognize the self-evident personhood of a human child.
To: BenLurkin
Somebody had to be told that.
To: BenLurkin
Let us face it - as a chimpanzee, Tommy is probably a pretty good specimen.
But his mental attainment shall never be much greater than perhaps a three- or four-year-old human child. Children of that age are able, when confronted with a serious challenge, to use their still rudimentary reasoning capabilities to cope with or overcome the difficulties, but more as a practical matter than as a display of intellectual attainment.
There are human beings that never get much above the level of a three-or four-year-old, do we trust them to drive an automobile, or vote, or keep a checking account?
There is, after all, a certain minimum level of competence we ask and expect of our neighbors and cohorts, so we may even carry on normal social interactions.
We do not always get the minimum level.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:48:41 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
To: BenLurkin
US chimpanzee Tommy Tommy can you hear me?
Can you feel me near you?
Tommy can you see me?
Do you want a beer, you?
I fink you freeky and I like you lot.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:49:41 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(Why hello, Captain Trips.)
To: BenLurkin
Liberals only care about chimps if they're not Republicans.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:51:11 PM PST
by
South40
(Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:53:26 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: escapefromboston
Giving Chimpanzees the vote would have lead to drawn out and bitter struggle for the Aphid and Weevil vote.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:53:53 PM PST
by
PUGACHEV
To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle
He’s just an innocent primate!
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:54:18 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:57:10 PM PST
by
Brandonmark
(There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
To: alloysteel
And once he reaches puberty, Tommy can rip off the faces and bite off the hands of any humans who either frighten or anger him. No, he will never be the equal of a human.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:57:29 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BenLurkin
He can still vote in NYC, 4 or 5 times, if he is a democrat.
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posted on
12/05/2014 1:57:41 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: escapefromboston
Well there goes the next big democratic voting block.
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posted on
12/05/2014 2:01:30 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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