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Photo credit: Senthiaathavan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Colorado Permit Elephants to Sue?

Many law schools teach courses in animal rights, training lawyers for the day the courtroom door opens to animals. Read More ›
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Photo: A chatbot, by UC Davis College of Engineering, via Flickr (cropped).

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Coralie Mercier, via Flickr (cropped).

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
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Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”

Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo. Read More ›
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Photo by Deror Avi [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”

Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal. Read More ›

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