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

To: Solon who wrote (81194)	6/26/2009 8:31:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

are rights we "grant" them or "give" them, huh? I would say that we can and should give legal rights respect these natural rights. YOU don't want a terrestrial alien (such as a dolphin) to have "natural rights" because YOU don't want it to be equivalent to a human What I want has nothing to do with it. A dolphin isn't the equivalent of a human. Assuming we didn't wind up with serious conflicts with non-human intelligence, I'd like it if some other species where our equivalent, but I'm not going to pretend that something is, just because it might be nice. .so EVERY sperm and EVERY egg has potential sentience, as well. No. Not a single sperm or egg has potential sentience.