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The UK Green Party has joined the war on humans. The Party’s election platform calls for expanding the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights to all sentient life forms. From the Telegraph story:

Article Five of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, banning “inhuman” treatment, is extended to all sentient life forms.

The same prison sentences for the murder and kidnap of humans will apply to crimes involving elephants, monkeys, and whales.

Flies are sentient.

The Greens also want to stop all economic growth, which will harm the developed world and devastate the destitute. The environmental movement is growing increasingly anti-human. Case in point.

Image by James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster [CC BY-SA 2.5 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cross-posted at Human Exceptionalism.

Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.
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