Richard Baker wrote: > > An alternative and more science-fictional version of the same sort of > situation. Suppose we have a "time scoop" that can pluck ancestors of > modern humans out of the past and into the present (after they've > performed their role as ancestors!). Let's suck up enough such > ancestors to make up a small town's population, grabbing them at 1000 > year intervals (or, if you prefer, at some interval defined by number > of generations). I don't think anyone would argue that the ancestors > from AD1000, AD1 or 1000BC shouldn't be granted human rights. But how > about the small rodent-like ones from 100,000,000BC? Then where is > the line to be drawn? > I think this imaginary experiment shows that "human rights" should be granted to animals, but with less strict criteria. For example, chimps should have some human rights, but not all [at least now].
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