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From: lae@pedsga.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Message-ID: <552@pedsga.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 20:03:56 GMT
References: <97500013@prism> <4872@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <9915@tekecs.TEK.COM> <1205@qiclab.UUCP> <11285@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ann Ellis)
Organization: Closet Philosophers Society
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<In article <1205@qiclab.UUCP> leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
<<
<<[It will be found] that there are some "humans" who don't fit the
<<definition ... unless the definition is such that some creatures considered
<<"non-human" now will be "human" under it.  Both outcomes will cause great
<<outcry.  ...  (... I'd be surprised if it happened in 5 years, and even
<<more surprised if it *didn't* happen in 25!)
<

I believe that the answer is to treat all animals as humans and to
provide vocational rehab for those who have trouble functioning
in human society.


Leslie
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