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The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in a case about whether two chimpanzees deserve the rights of "personhood."
Tommy and Kiko, two chimpanzees reported to be in their late 30s, will be represented by the Nonhuman Rights Project in court on Thursday. In its petition before the New York court, the Nonhuman Rights Project asked that a chimpanzee not be considered a "legal thing to be possessed" but a "cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned."
New York court to consider whether a chimpanzee is a 'person'
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I disagree. I believe the differences between humans and animals are well established and are not deserving of similar treatment.
@juearstictiona Where should the line be drawn? Should such rights also extend to millipedes? Pneumodesmus were the first creatures to live on land.
@joecavalry Animal cruelty laws are already well established. Affording animals rights is something very different. This will do nothing but further burden our courts and add to our already overly litigious society.
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If supreme court will consider classifying chimps as humans, what about other artificial life forms as cognitive computing develops further.
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Also, I am comfused how they would evem deal with issue of "imprisonment" for chimps, would that mean release them from zoos into the wild in Africa?
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