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- From: magnus@jaist-east.ac.jp (Magnus Halldorsson)
- Subject: Re: Whale rights - Science and sentimen
- In-Reply-To: sharvy@reed.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 19: 16:30 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:25:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.191630.12376@reed.edu> sharvy@reed.edu (V Headshape) writes:
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- Certain categories of human beings, such as infants and mentally retarded
- people, routinely fall below apes and whales in levels of intelligence, self-
- awareness, language-ability, use of ideas, etc.
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- Right, so perceived or hypothetical intelligence is probably not a
- good argument for not hunting apes and whales.
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- Magnus
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