[extropy-chat] Spanish Socialists consider giving apes human-level rights

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 08:16 AM 4/27/2006, James Hughes wrote:

Instead of wearing my own picture (or of my children) on one of my office 
passes, I wear a picture of an orangutan because he/she is my family.  I'm 
glad George is taking a stand.  Thanks for posting this message.

>According to the Project, "Today only members of the species Homo
>sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee,
>the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species's closest relatives. They
>possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify their
>inclusion in the community of equals."

<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Designer
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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