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- From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.185151.4599@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 18:51:51 GMT
- References: <1992Apr27.191800.5427@quest.UUCP> <BrIv18.Es1@well.sf.ca.us>
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- In article <BrIv18.Es1@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
- >In article <1992Apr27.191800.5427@quest.UUCP> curt@quest.UUCP (Curtis Gibson) writes:
- >>
- >>Its scary to think that Mr. Spock could beam down the to front steps of
- >>the Supreme Court and there are no laws to protect him from being; killed,
- >>eaten, enslaved, stuffed & mounted, put in a zoo, raped, etc (you get the
- >>idea) by anyone who wanted to to it to him. Think about it, no protection
- >>and rights means no vistors from out there. Would you want to go anywhere
- >>that the police could not, would not protect you? Lets start a Alien Rights
- >>movement today. 8^).....
- >
- >I'm sure there would be the mother of all court cases over the meaning of
- >a key word ("person" or "human" or whatever) in the statute defining
- >"murder" where it happens.
- >--
- >D. Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
- >Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
- >"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy."
-
- Actually, this isn't quite as funny as it sounds.
- A number of the chimpanzees that learned how to
- "talk" (let's start a controversy here) are now
- neglected. What rights chimpanzees and possibly
- gorillas should have is unclear, but the law regards
- them as animals. Potentially more embarrassing
- is the status of bottlenose dolphins, who seem to
- have a weaker (different?) spatial sense than humans,
- but may actually be more developed in other ways.
- If Dr Lilly arrives at the Supreme Court with an
- English-Delphinese dictionary, nobody should be too
- surprised. But what about tuna fishing, not to
- mention our relations with Japan?
-
- The only cases at all like these that the Court has
- dealt with so far are the abortion cases, which
- do not inspire confidence, and the brain-death
- cases, which were decided on different grounds.
- One can only imagine the legal hash that cyborgs
- will inspire.
-
- -----Greg McColm
-