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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. Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size."

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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.