On Tuesday I was invited as a speaker at the First Congress Bioethics and animals , organized by the Faculty of Arts, University bioethics program, both UNAM, and the Great Ape Project (Mexico-Spain). I focused my speech to convince the audience about the biological absurd that involves holding the thesis of the absolute human superiority over all other species. To say that man is better than other living beings shows in the best, biological ignorance; but when it is concluded, from the false premise above, we have right to torture, enslave and kill other forms of life because we are “masters of the world”, it becomes endless stupidity.
According to the modern classification, the group of hominids including orangutans, gorillas, humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, assembly, also known as the great apes. Apparently their most recent common ancestor emerged about 15 million years ago, possibly in India.
The Great Ape Project is based on the idea of granting basic rights currently enjoyed by humans. These are the right to life, liberty and not be physically or psychologically mistreated, as happens in scientific experiments, in circuses and zoos. The organization is an international group founded to work for the abolition of the category of “property” would now have nonhuman apes and the immediate inclusion in the category of people. Its long-term goal is to achieve the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Great Apes Anthropoid. When you get that result, will defend the establishment of protected so that chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans can continue to live as free beings on their own territories. The project has support in over 20 countries.
On 20 April, the judge Barbara Jaffe , on behalf of the Supreme Court of New York, signed a resource habeas corpus , used in cases of persons deprived unlawfully of his liberty for Hercules and Leo chimpanzees, ruling that there is sufficient so that those responsible for the detention of two chimpanzees explain reasons to the Court, the reasons captivity. This is the first time in history that such a legal figure is assigned legally recognizing animals as human beings. Nonhuman Rights Project hopes that both human beings can not be transferred to the Save the Chimps sanctuary Inc., in Florida, where they can live with 250 comrades lucky.
If we proclaim equality, liberty and fraternity -out pervert revolutionary bourgeois bias, we treat our fellow travelers on this starry blue mandarin, with the respect they deserve. The intelligence does not make us bigger than the other beings on Earth, our salvation and grandeur will find them in the respectful treatment towards them
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