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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. And there we win, and whoever comes in second (dolphins) should therefore be almost as worthy as we are of. What does that say? (I

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John Rodman on Dolphinic Wisdom

Animal Ethics

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. In one, the philosophers join the dolphins and never return. We wait and wonder whether man is ready.