From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 12:07:52 MDT
> (Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>):
>> I am continuously amazed to see such fallacies trotted out as sensible
>> arguments. Just because a chimp can communicate at the level of a
>> three-year-old, does not make that chimp the moral equivalent of a
>> three-year-old.
Not to mention that the "if" there is complete nonsense anyway.
Even after decades of research attempting to teach chimps, gorillas,
and other apes something resembling "language", none of them, at any
age, after years of work, have acheived skills that any 18-month-old
human infant acheives spontaneously with no effort.
I am sympathetic to many animal-rights causes, but let's not use
bullshit science to justify it.
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