Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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Last Thoughts on Animals, Computers and Human Minds
- From Tibor Machan
By Tibor Machan - Author/Journalist/Professor
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Does one have to be a "thinking being" to have rights?
The right to be free from suffering and pain, the right to be free from enslavement, the right to reproduce and take care of one's offspring, the right to have access to an environment which supports ones basic needs for food , water, shelter etc- none of these rights are in any way conditonal on the subject being a 'thinking being', but only on the subject being a 'living' being with a sufficently complex nervous system.
- sor666
May 6, 2009 4:23AM
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sor666
It is absurd to compare computers to animals and is very much in the 17th century tradition, when animals were considered to possess no free will, but were automatons- hence it was considered valid to vivisect them. Animals are alive, machines are not alive- this is the fundamental difference.
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May 6, 2009 4:33AM
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