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From the article, paraphrased:
When Steven Wise, a 63-year-old legal scholar in the field of animal law, decided to poke around Circle L Trailer Sales to assess the living conditions of the Reindeer living on the company grounds, he was horrified to discover that a former circus chimpanzee named Tommy was forced to live in inhumane conditions:
A rancid milk-musk odor wafted forth and with it the sight of an adult chimpanzee, crouched inside a small steel-mesh cell. Some plastic toys and bits of soiled bedding were strewn behind him. The only visible light emanated from a small portable TV on a stand outside his bars, tuned to what appeared to be a nature show.
Being sufficiently moved by witnessing that heinous crime, Wise and a few cohorts strolled into the Fulton County Courthouse wielding a legal document the likes of which had never been seen in any of the world's courts, a legal package including a detailed account of the "petitioner's" cruel and unusual solitary confinement along with nine affidavits gathered from leading primatologists, underscoring the physical and psychological damages such living conditions endured by a being with such cognitive capability. Tommy would not, however, have anticipated that he was about to make legal history as the first nonhuman primate to ever sue a human captor in an attempt to gain his own freedom.
Granting rights associated with personhood to non-persons has been discussed extensively before, but would be giving personhood to animals be a dangerous slippery-slope? Would be the mark of a more humane and mature society?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Techwolf on Monday April 28 2014, @02:55PM
This is a result of the failure of animial abuse laws either not being up to standerds or lack of enforment. Lack of enforment results in civians being force to sue as the only means of addressing animail abuse.
In some places, one can go to jail due to dog humping there leg while another that entinchilly mains and kills there animal is let off scott free.
Please forgive all the spelling errors, no spell checker on my tablet.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Monday April 28 2014, @03:15PM
Ethically? Intentionally? Chinchilla?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday April 28 2014, @03:18PM
Intentionally?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Monday April 28 2014, @03:19PM
Intentionally. Posting on a tablet is not ideal. Plus being a horriable speller doen't help much. While I'me good on computers, mechinicial, and other tech, language skills are sadly lacking in me.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday April 28 2014, @05:33PM
I'm not smart enough to not be able to navigate a few mis-spellings.
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(Score: 2) by hybristic on Monday April 28 2014, @09:59PM
A useful technique I have used no my tablet when I don't know how to spell something is I back out and put my guessed spelling into Google and it corrects me, then I copy and paste it in place. Its a hassle, but if you really don't want people criticizing you for your spelling, its quick and effective.