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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Of course, the size of a brain isn't what's important.

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John Rodman on Dolphinic Wisdom

Animal Ethics

Man, said the ancient philosophers, is a rational animal. Animal: genus; common denominator of man and beast. Once before, around the time of Plato and Aristotle, the dolphins began tentatively to approach man. Now men in desperation voyage into outer space, searching far-off planets for signs of intelligent, non-human life.