The Dehumanising of Rights
No, No, and No again. Forget lovable Flipper for a moment, as soon as we link intelligence to having human rights we are slipping down the ugly route of eugenics where idiots, the insane and the Untermenschen no longer have rights and can be disposed of.
Humans have human rights because they are humans.
Wales and dolphins shouldn't be treated cruelly because it offends our notions of fairness and charity, not because they have our rights and obligations.
Comments
Agreed, but we have already reached the Eugenics tipping point. All this hype about "Anthropomorphic Global Warming" and "Climate Change" is driving toward reducing people to population control.
Posted by: The Gray Monk | February 22, 2012 8:38 PM
I agree about Wales -)
Posted by: Graham | February 23, 2012 12:02 AM
Dolphins are more deserving of human rights than the morons who say they are. (Was that opaque enough?)
Posted by: Kim du Toit | February 23, 2012 4:37 AM