Baby_Sri_Lankan_elephant_(Elephas_maximus_maximus) Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 22, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, chimpanzees, Colorado, companionship, elephants, entertainment, food, Happy (elephant), Nonhuman Rights Project, ownership, PETA, science, writ of habeas corpus, zoo Will Colorado Permit Elephants to Sue? Wesley J. Smith October 22, 2024 Bioethics, Evolution 4 Many law schools teach courses in animal rights, training lawyers for the day the courtroom door opens to animals. Read More ›
chatbot Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date June 21, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry” Denyse O’Leary June 21, 2022 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›
elephant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 16, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsScience Reporting Tagged , activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, women, writ of habeas corpus Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights Wesley J. Smith June 16, 2022 Bioethics, Science Reporting 4 I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
Ota_Benga_at_Bronx_Zoo Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 5, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Africans, animal rights, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, clergy, Darwinism, frivolous lawsuits, Happy (elephant), human rights, Human Zoos, Monkey House, New York Post, Nonhuman Rights Project, Ota Benga, scientific racism, Tree of Life, Wesley Smith, writ of habeas corpus On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy” David Klinghoffer October 5, 2018 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 5 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 ›
elephant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 5, 2018 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __k-review, animal rights, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, chimpanzees, Congress, Constitution, courts, elephant, frivolous lawsuits, habeas corpus, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, judge, mirror, New York Court of Appeals, New York Post, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, personhood Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights” Wesley J. Smith October 5, 2018 Bioethics 4 Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal. Read More ›