From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 11:09:47 MST
Here's a review of an interesting-looking book that proposes that chimps and
bonobos should enjoy certain legal rights now reserved for humans:
http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/02/04/cage/index.html
My own thinking on the subject of the rights and duties of sentient creatures
(played out on this list with excruciating inconsistency over the years) has
led me to thinking along the lines described in this review.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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