Nonhuman Rights

[ClydeR]

I'm afraid we haven't heard the last of calls for animals to have human rights.


ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday.

The 5-2 decision by the state Court of Appeals comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.

More... (https://apnews.com/article/happy-the-elephant-personhood-ruling-e87eacdfa08ed4057255bf4b7623aaf4)


If Happy was considered to be a person, she would vote Republican since elephants are the symbol (https://www.history.com/news/how-did-the-republican-and-democratic-parties-get-their-animal-symbols) of the Republican party.

[Methais]

Shut the fuck up ClydeREEEEEEEEEE

[Gelston]

I'm curious what the 2 Judges who voted against thought should happen to the animal.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I'm curious what the 2 Judges who voted against thought should happen to the animal.

Easy, that the Elephant identified as human. Sex and race undetermined until they go through CRT and conversion therapy.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Oh, and I heard on Tucker that Elephants are replacing humans now.

[Tgo01]

Reminds me of PETA celebrating because they got some company to stop buying coconut water from a company who supposedly uses "monkey slave labor."

[ClydeR]

I'm curious what the 2 Judges who voted against thought should happen to the animal.

Good question. Here it is. 109 pages.

https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2022/Jun22/52opn22-Decision.pdf

The judges in the majority used 17 of those 109 pages to explain their decision. The rest was the dissenting judges. I have no idea what their legal position is, because I don't want to read that much. The story of Ota Benga on the first two pages of the dissent was interesting. I was not aware of that history. Ota Benga was a pygmy held in the monkey house of the same zoo more than 100 years ago on the grounds that he was not a person. He eventually killed himself. The zoo publicly apologized for its treatment of Ota Benga while this elephant case was pending in court.