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Old 10-15-08, 06:14 PM   #4
Letum
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There are two issues.

"Person" can mean either:

The legal status that most (but not all) humans have and some financial/business
organizations have. In some countries you can declare your self not to have
a person, which gives you certain legal entitlements and removes others.

Or

It can mean you are sentient enough to be accorded certain degrees of morality
that humans share.


I am for the former and against the latter.
I am happy for a chimp to have a bank account in it's name as if it where a
business. I am not happy for chimps to get out of being exploited for the benefit
of humanns.
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