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Should dolphins be considered non-human persons?

Should they?

  • yes

    Votes: 5 19.2%
  • no

    Votes: 18 69.2%
  • other

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • Total voters
    26

Solace

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In Spain dolphins are officially recognized as non-human persons. Scientists also claim that dolphins show signs of being both sentient and sapient (capable of advanced independent thought, similar to humans) and should be considered non-human persons. Do you believe that dolphins should be considered non-human persons?

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' - Times Online
 
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Spain allows bullfighting, should they be experts in what is animal and what is man?
Hell, we hardly know ourselves what is what.
A corporation is a "person".
A fetus is a "thing".
I think that all of us should go back to school and pay attention this time..
Man has a long ways to go.
 
someone ought to harpoon this silliness
 
Dolphins, like apes and any other non-humans, should only be recognized as persons and given the rights thereof when they are capable of effectively demanding that we do so. Until they are capable of functioning as persons within our society, there is no reason that our society should award them any special recognition whatsoever.
 
Dolphins, like apes and any other non-humans, should only be recognized as persons and given the rights thereof when they are capable of effectively demanding that we do so. Until they are capable of functioning as persons within our society, there is no reason that our society should award them any special recognition whatsoever.

I think we should let them vote and give them taxpayer funded abortions on demand.
 
I wouldn't go so far as to call them "persons," but they do display a level of intelligence that makes me think they are entitled to at least SOME protections, such as the right to life.
 
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I saw this thread and I thought to myself...I bet Solace started it.
 
If it is a lame thread with a stupid poll...odds are high Solace started it.

Almost as high as the odds that he won't respond to any of the posts!
 
as soon as they start considering a fetus a non-person human... :shrug:

That was nearly the dumbest thing you could have said, next to something like "The Jews Control the Moon."

What is the relevance of that to dolphin sentience? You're simply, blatantly, and ineptly trying to derail this thread along partisan lines.
 
What's a non-human person anyway?
 
Dolphins, like apes and any other non-humans, should only be recognized as persons and given the rights thereof when they are capable of effectively demanding that we do so. Until they are capable of functioning as persons within our society, there is no reason that our society should award them any special recognition whatsoever.

It's not their fault that they evolved with flippers.
 
That was nearly the dumbest thing you could have said, next to something like "The Jews Control the Moon."

What is the relevance of that to dolphin sentience? You're simply, blatantly, and ineptly trying to derail this thread along partisan lines.

yeah...right. I just find it funny that some people are more willing to give more rights to a dolphin than to a developing human.
 
yeah...right. I just find it funny that some people are more willing to give more rights to a dolphin than to a developing human.

The rights of a dolphin do not infringe on the rights of an adult human. The hypothetical rights of a fetus (which, I might add, has less intellectual capability than a full-grown dolphin), DO infringe on the rights of an adult human.

Thus the distinction.
 
No, plain and simple. Also I don't see a reason why dolphins shouldn't be hunted, as long as there are protections in place that makes sure they don't become extinct.
 
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