Posted on 01/31/2025 12:18:33 PM PST by DallasBiff
A mountain in New Zealand is now legally recognised as a person after being granted all the rights and responsibilities of a human by the government.
The new law offers extra protection for Mount Taranaki - now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name - and means it has all the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of a person.
It is part of an agreement between New Zealand's government and the indigenous Maori tribes, which have long considered the 8,261ft mountain an ancestor.
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I know it's a Maori religion rite, but to me this is ridiculous pandering.
what gender?
Just another reason the entire Anglosphere is going to hell in a handbasket.
What pronouns should you use to address the pile of rock?
my concern isn’t gender as much as who changes the diapers. remember...it’s In its infancy and someone gots to do it.
You got me. I thought this was from The Bee!
Can it afford the huge Property Tax ?
Can the mountain be sued for damages resulting from a climber being injured or killed while on the mountain if proven there was no negligence on the part of the climber?
The main thing on the new “person’s” mind:
How can I sue for reparations?
Can’t recall all the details but when people in the failing US under Bill Clinton used to muse about finding a new country somewhere else the two cited were Australia and New Zealand.
But Robert Ringer (Looking Out for #1; Winning Through Intimidation) said both of them have requirements that if, as a business or other enterprise owner wanted to fire an employee you could have the government’s permission only if you lined up an appropriate replacement job for that employee somewhere else. It was your responsibility to make sure he or she had income and benefits after you fired them.
When I heard of each later woke idea I thought it wasn’t surprising.
Mount Denali in Alaska now self identifies as a male ex American President.
Well New Zealand, already pretty Leftist, has officially gone full nonsense.
Does this mean all the “cuckoos” aren’t in the same continent?
RETARDED!
Is there a “Trans-Mountain” in New Zealand’s future?
I hope the mountain does not mind getting mandatory jabs now and then.
:-)
Leftist-woke, the new feel good religion.
Factual nonsense is overtaking the Bee’s mythical nonsense.
The Bee’s gotta start working harder to keep ahead of the world’s nonsense tsunami...
“Will the mountain pay taxes, get married, and have children?”
Can it vote???
Does the mountain, all on its own, decide how it can be used?
These ideas, humanizing things in nature and assigning them “human rights” is part of the mental and intellectual devolution of humanity.
It is one thing to respect nature and have respectful management of nature, but quite another giving “personhood” to things in nature. It’s insane.
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