Charlotte Uhlenbroek (Zoologist)
"If I was an alien from Mars and looked at human society and a society of apes then in terms of the emotional life I would see no distinct difference, although we live very different lives because of language and technology."
- Making a case for 'human rights' for apes.
**I'm going to leave my comment to a man with much more information on the matter:
"Where do you stop? It seems to be that being human is unique and nothing to do with biology. Say that apes share 98% of human DNA and therefore should have 98% of human rights. Well mice share 90% of human DNA. Should they get 90% of human rights?"......."Rights and responsibilities go together and I've yet to see a chimp imprisoned for stealing a banana because they don't have a moral sense of what's right an wrong. To give them rights is to give them something without asking anything in return." - Steve Jones (Genetics Professor, University of London)**
- Making a case for 'human rights' for apes.
**I'm going to leave my comment to a man with much more information on the matter:
"Where do you stop? It seems to be that being human is unique and nothing to do with biology. Say that apes share 98% of human DNA and therefore should have 98% of human rights. Well mice share 90% of human DNA. Should they get 90% of human rights?"......."Rights and responsibilities go together and I've yet to see a chimp imprisoned for stealing a banana because they don't have a moral sense of what's right an wrong. To give them rights is to give them something without asking anything in return." - Steve Jones (Genetics Professor, University of London)**
posted by Poison Pero @ Friday, April 20, 2007
1 Comments:
At 7:03 AM,
still Unreal... said…
Actually, if an alien from mars were to land, they'd laugh their asses (or whatev) off at all the shit-for-brain moves the top of the food chain is trying to make to include the animals lower on the ladder.
And then they'd leave, never to come back.....unless it's to conquer.
;-)
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