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Should Chimps Have Human Rights?
An anonymous reader writes "A Brazilian court has already issued a writ of habeas corpus in the name of a chimp. And now an Austrian court may well decide that a chimpanzee is a 'person' with what up until now have been called human rights." From the story in the Guardian/Observer: "He recognizes himself in the mirror, plays hide-and-seek and breaks into fits of giggles when tickled. He is also our closest evolutionary cousin. A group of world leading primatologists argue that this is proof enough that Hiasl, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, deserves to be treated like a human. In a test case in Austria, campaigners are seeking to ditch the 'species barrier' and have taken Hiasl's case to court. If Hiasl is granted human status — and the rights that go with it — it will signal a victory for other primate species and unleash a wave of similar cases."
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Log scale. you move up two orders of magnitude of humanity from 90 to 97%
Which implies that a banana only has 1/112th of a soul.
I agree that killing your child should be legal up until it's two years old. I mean, sometimes you don't know if you really want a child before the third trimester rolls around. It's not civilized to put a mother under that kind of stress. Give her some time to think about it. Then, if she doesn't want he baby after a year or two, she can just drop it off in a dumpster or something.
The only reason even pro-abortionists are against late term and post-natal abortions is because that's when the child starts looking cute. It's just like those damn baby seals everyone keeps crying about.