NY court: Chimps don't have same rights as humans

Thank goodness, indeed. What if the chimp had political ambitions?

So does gold fish and all pets, right?

NY court: Chimps don't have same rights as humans

Next on the far lefts agenda, "Trees are People too"!

What if the chimp had political ambitions?

Exactly! Just look what happened with the previous administration!

For once, sanity prevails.... I was almost expecting the opposite.

NY court: Chimps don't have same rights as humans

Clear enough , thanks

They should have done this under "animal cruelty" not "Chimps are people too!" But if the owner is meeting the state requirements to care for the chimp and giving it adequate shelter, food and socialization then the animal rights activists can stuff it.

The writer, George Walsh and AP seem to agree, quote: 'The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous in denying “legal personhood” to Tommy, which lives alone in a cage.'

Not even a 'who' is allowed.

The court's decision is incoherent, irrational nonsense. We do not protect the mentally disabled or children from unlawful imprisonment or worse, solitary confinement, because they can "bear any legal duties, submit to societal responsibilities or be held legally accountable for their actions." Moreover, the differences between ourselves and other animals, as Darwin evinced, are differences of degree, not differences in kind. And nowhere is this clearer than in the case of our fellow apes, the most "human" of the non-humans, who exhibit a range of recognizably "human" behaviors. The court's judgment is pure prejudice dressed up as reasoned judgment.

Lucky escape for many. Chimps with rights could take many of our jobs. And they work for peanuts.