Comment Re:good (Score 1) 341
"By denying chimps some basic rights"
Remember first we are talking about rights, not considerations or protections and that we aren't talking about SOME we are talking about equating them to a human being. That means chimps born in the US are citizens for example, have the right to marry, to vote, killing one is murder, putting one in a zoo is kidnapping, they have a right to trial, etc.
But your logic isn't sound. Either the humanzee is a distinct species, in which case whether or not we recognize chimps as having equal rights as humans will neither grant nor deny humanzees those rights or it is seen a hybrid of two species and not a distinct species, in which case it will inherit rights from it's human parent.
It would still be logical to group all creatures which our offspring as human derivatives with human rights while denying everything not our offspring.
I've never met a Chiman (it's sort of like if a white guy and a black girl have a baby, the white people call it black and the black people call it white, so the chimps would call the offspring a Humanzee, we'd call it a Chiman). So I reserve judgement on what level of consideration or protections I'd support for one but I wouldn't favor considering one to have human rights. I'm confident the Chiman will reserve for itself the right to disagree and just like the Chimp, I welcome its counterarguments.
Remember first we are talking about rights, not considerations or protections and that we aren't talking about SOME we are talking about equating them to a human being. That means chimps born in the US are citizens for example, have the right to marry, to vote, killing one is murder, putting one in a zoo is kidnapping, they have a right to trial, etc.
But your logic isn't sound. Either the humanzee is a distinct species, in which case whether or not we recognize chimps as having equal rights as humans will neither grant nor deny humanzees those rights or it is seen a hybrid of two species and not a distinct species, in which case it will inherit rights from it's human parent.
It would still be logical to group all creatures which our offspring as human derivatives with human rights while denying everything not our offspring.
I've never met a Chiman (it's sort of like if a white guy and a black girl have a baby, the white people call it black and the black people call it white, so the chimps would call the offspring a Humanzee, we'd call it a Chiman). So I reserve judgement on what level of consideration or protections I'd support for one but I wouldn't favor considering one to have human rights. I'm confident the Chiman will reserve for itself the right to disagree and just like the Chimp, I welcome its counterarguments.