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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (81192)	6/26/2009 7:06:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That goes back to my earlier point about narrow or broad definitions for sentient (or for intelligent, sapient or whatever other term might be used in its place). I would put dolphins in the same general area of apes, not of humans. If we call dolphins and apes "intelligent sentient creatures", than either 1 - We would argue for granting them the same or similar rights as humans. or 2 - We need some new term to distinguish humans from them. Possibly "sufficiently sapient/sentient", but that seems clumsy and tends to imply a difference in degree rather than a difference in basic nature. I think I'd go with 2. Or perhaps they could have some third level where we give them more legal rights than most animals but still don't recognize them as the moral equivalent of, and as possessing the same rights as, humans.