tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post4638193955326962709..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: Bill of Rights for BonzoRick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-41702715272112515102008-07-18T08:17:00.000-05:002008-07-18T08:17:00.000-05:00I was talking with a bonobo the other day, and he ...I was talking with a bonobo the other day, and he pretty much thought that his deity had made bonobos in her image, too. He was Lutheran, though, so what does he know?Display Namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842340986220388709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-4041736226033508342008-07-17T16:51:00.000-05:002008-07-17T16:51:00.000-05:00Is the “lingering pull of the dogma” a product of ...Is the “lingering pull of the dogma” a product of indoctrination?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1991392973131389022008-07-17T00:13:00.000-05:002008-07-17T00:13:00.000-05:00Brother TyrolerThanks. I am inclined to Professor ...Brother Tyroler<BR/><BR/>Thanks. I am inclined to Professor Vischer's view of the matter. There are things about apes that suggest they not be treated cavalierly. The same applies, I think, to dogs who are, in many ways, more capable of what we value in ourselves than apes.<BR/><BR/>What I can't warm to is the idea that this is about competence. I prefer to think that apes and dogs and other animals imperfectly reflect in some way the image of God that we find in humans and, because of which, regard humans - all humans - as possessing an innate dignity apart from competence.Rick Esenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-9757845876040185822008-07-16T23:58:00.000-05:002008-07-16T23:58:00.000-05:00So primates should have rights.But babies are murd...So primates should have rights.<BR/>But babies are murdered by the thousands on a daily basis in the U.S. and in fact "we the people" pay Planned Parenthood (read-Death Hut) more than $300,000,000.00 in tax money.<BR/>We have lost our way. Babies are slaughtered and monkeys get rights.<BR/>This is worse than a Kurt Vonnegut novel.<BR/>Soylent green is people!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-55897887966044280192008-07-16T13:44:00.000-05:002008-07-16T13:44:00.000-05:00Rights for Bonzo? Or for Cornelius? Or, to press t...Rights for <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043325/" REL="nofollow">Bonzo</A>? Or for <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_%28Planet_of_the_Apes%29" REL="nofollow">Cornelius</A>? Or, to press the matter more acutely, <A HREF="http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/2008/01/monkeys-thoughts-control-robot.html" REL="nofollow">Idoya</A>:<BR/><BR/><I>Monkey’s Thoughts Control Robot <BR/><BR/>If Idoya could talk, she would have plenty to boast about.<BR/><BR/>On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity.<BR/><BR/>She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.</I><BR/><BR/>And if monkeys indeed are capable of thought why shouldn't we see them as "roughly comparable" and thus entitled to roughly comparable human rights?<BR/><BR/>Great post, in my opinion, for whatever it's worth.William Tyrolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964907089960326249noreply@blogger.com