[NoStaplesPlease]

Because the replicants still weren't human. Sure, they LOOKED like humans.

Basically, it tugs at the heartstrings. Looks right, feels right, but still is NOT the same thing.

So I think that while every person might indeed be tempted to legislate along these lines, it's only really the left who would.

Perhaps I'm naive. Maybe the appearance is all that matters. I mean, I don't think dogs have souls, but it is and should still be against the law to mistreat them. Perhaps the same kind of principal would apply?

[Jack Black]

I totally disagree. Maybe the religious right would hold out for some fundamentalist interpretation and "soul test". But I would certainly support full rights for Replicants. I mean the whole point of the last scene was the Rutgar *was* a self-aware, beauty appreciating individual intensly aware of his own mortality.

That is far and away enough to qualify for civil rights.