Please don't give me legal rights ROGER SCRUTON explains why it would be wrong to treat 'higher apes', such as gorillas and chimpanzees, like human beings

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: February 12, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THIRTY-EIGHT scientists, lawyers and philosophers, backers of the so-called "Great Ape Project", are currently petitioning New Zealand's parliament to pass a Bill which confers rights on chimpanzees and other primates. If successful, their campaign will inaugurate a worldwide attempt to grant legal protection to our nearest relatives among the animals, and ensure that henceforth "animal rights" will have the same status as human rights in the determination of our legal duties.

The impetus behind the campaign comes from the Australian philosopher Peter Singer, whose 1975 book Animal Liberation ...

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