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New York's top court has ruled that Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo since the 1970s, cannot legally be considered a person in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.
[...] The state court of appeals ruled on Tuesday 5-2, with a decision written by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore echoing that point. "While no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion", a writ of habeas corpus was intended to protect the liberty of human beings and did not apply to a nonhuman animal like Happy, said DiFiore.
[...] Extending that right to Happy to challenge her confinement at a zoo "would have an enormous destabilizing impact on modern society". And granting legal personhood in a case like this would affect how humans interact with animals, according to the majority decision.
"Indeed, followed to its logical conclusion, such a determination would call into question the very premises underlying pet ownership, the use of service animals, and the enlistment of animals in other forms of work," read the decision.
[...] Two judges, Rowan Wilson and Jenny Rivera, wrote separate, sharply worded dissents saying the fact that Happy is an animal does not prevent her from having legal rights. Rivera wrote that Happy was being held in "an environment that is unnatural to her and that does not allow her to live her life".
"Her captivity is inherently unjust and inhumane. It is an affront to a civilized society, and every day she remains a captive – a spectacle for humans – we, too, are diminished," Rivera wrote.
Next time they should try a writ of Mammuthus.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Friday June 17 2022, @06:24AM (1 child)
The Soviet Union had more people at the end of WW2 than it started with.
Your own link agrees with me. "Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s)". Admittedly [citation needed].
Once again, your link affirms what I said - the last food shortage in the USSR was in 1947.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @08:28AM
You don't put too much price on individual life, do you?
Not to mention the total irrelevance of your argument on the type of war USSR practiced - more cannon fodder, less economy.
You think "If you are unable to secure a roof over your head, then you are a parasite and your place is in jail/forced labor camp" is better than even Hooverville-s [wikipedia.org]? (most of the homeless now in US are better than at those times and still have chances to raise out of their status)
If you think so, you have quite a twisted sense of value.
First, their last famine was in 1947, chronic food shortages were quite common after too.
After that, the Russian started to export their food shortage to its "vassals" in the Warsaw pact.