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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Do Apes have the rights of personhood?
 
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Rexicon1 posted:


The reason the metaphysical argument of personhood (The character of 'consciousness' of an individual being) falls apart, is because it doesn't allow for the variations in consciousness among a group. If a human falls belowthe intelligence of a primate due to brain injury, does that make him haveless rights? or does that give that primate more rights than that man? It's a clumsy theory that makes no logical sense.
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This is a general flaw in just about all philosophical rights theory; it's also why libertarian theory breaks down. The theories just can't handle why we accord more rights to a disabled human or an infant than to an ape that knows 200 words of sign language. See, e.g., Peter Singer.

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