The Non-Human Person
There have been several court cases in the US and other countries in the past several years regarding the defining of 'personhood' and of the rights of persons, non-human. These cases, briefly reported in the media, have stimulated a lot of knee-jerk reaction calling it ridiculous and inane, but there is a legitimate issue here that defines also who we are as human beings. I think most of us with a modicum of conscious humanity can easily agree that animals of all kind should be protected from... Sign in to see full entry.