Tag: chimpanzees
A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!
Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues.
For Transhumanists, a Dawning Realization
New religions aren’t necessarily founded already knowing that that is what they are destined to become.
News for the Birds — Smart, Gymnastic, Flute-Playing, Surviving
Is it reasonable that two populations would independently hit on an adaptation by chance?
On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”
Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo.
Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”
Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal.