To: Dimensio
[...So, are you going to take that Python to court for swallowing that human child? No. Non-sequitur...]
Not really. You can't take an animal to court when it behaves instinctively. An animal can't make a contract. Thus the difference between Humans and animals.
810 posted on
02/20/2006 11:05:53 PM PST by
Jo Nuvark
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To: Jo Nuvark
You can't take an animal to court when it behaves instinctively. An animal can't make a contract. Thus the difference between Humans and animals.
No, you can't take a non-human animal to court or enter it into a contract because of human-created legal structure (note that I am not advocating changing this structure).
Thus the difference between Humans and animals.
No, thus a difference between humans and other animal species.
814 posted on
02/20/2006 11:13:21 PM PST by
Dimensio
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To: Jo Nuvark
"You can't take an animal to court when it behaves instinctively."
Interestingly enough, common animals did get convicted of crimes in the middle ages. A pig going nuts and killing a child could be tried for murder, and hung. Or if a man got to *know* his sheep, but would be condemned to die.
Not sure this has much relevance with the topic being discussed, but I couldn't but share that odd tidbit of medieval history. :)
898 posted on
02/21/2006 6:00:30 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
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