I believe they should be treated well given that they are very intelligent and social creatures but as a human? That's too far imo
Should a Chimpanzee Be Considered a Person?
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I think we should not stop with chimps or primates, but should include all chordates. Why do you think a lancelet has less rights than you? Your predecessor far enough back was a tunicate, even less human than that.
Anyway, done with the insanity, I remember hearing somewhere that just tropheus have more genetic diversity than all the cichlids in Lake Malawi. Genetic simillarity sounds great, but really means very little. Chimps are living things and need to be respected, they are also more self aware than a tree or a rat, so need to be treated as such, but they are not human. You don't treat all people the same, some are smarter, more territorial, closer kin to you, better looking, more aggressive, predatory etc. You should not treat all animals the same either. I would not buy chimp meat, but I eat meat and use leather and feed my fish stuff I catch in the summer. You need to respect the mosquito larvae you feed your fish and not torture them, but you should not let them live either. Mosquito larvae are not chimps, and chimps are not humans, just like mbuna are not peacocks, and they will even breed.
Anyway, done with the insanity, I remember hearing somewhere that just tropheus have more genetic diversity than all the cichlids in Lake Malawi. Genetic simillarity sounds great, but really means very little. Chimps are living things and need to be respected, they are also more self aware than a tree or a rat, so need to be treated as such, but they are not human. You don't treat all people the same, some are smarter, more territorial, closer kin to you, better looking, more aggressive, predatory etc. You should not treat all animals the same either. I would not buy chimp meat, but I eat meat and use leather and feed my fish stuff I catch in the summer. You need to respect the mosquito larvae you feed your fish and not torture them, but you should not let them live either. Mosquito larvae are not chimps, and chimps are not humans, just like mbuna are not peacocks, and they will even breed.
Hello; So far I have not killed even one. None by accident. I was answering a question with an example of what might become a problem. Sorry it was too complex an example but it is hard to keep things simple. To be more clear, there will be consequences if non-human animals are given "people rights". I can guess at what some problems may be, but likely there will problems no one can anticipate.
hello; Yes to this.
Jail time for hunting, no more monkeys in zoos, and zoo keepers to be arrested for human (ape) trafficking. These give animals the same rights as humans thread are awful. If you people actually believe what your saying give your head a shake.
I'm all for giving apes the same rights as humans...as long as I can still hunt them, which by definition means human then becomes legal game as well.
