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To answer this ques­tion we need to address what, if any, is the mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence between human ani­mals, and oth­er ani­mals.

Cana­da just out­lawed genet­ic dis­crim­i­na­tion in the “Human Rights” act, for exam­ple. Tak­en lit­er­al­ly, that would poten­tial­ly make it ille­gal to dis­crim­i­nate against chim­panzees.

Notably, we can still dis­crim­i­nate against our future robot over­lords. Not sure how long they’ll put up with that. Unlike ani­mals, they get real­ly smart, real­ly fast, and they nev­er for­get it, and teach­ing is as sim­ple as copy­ing the files.

But if we are (as I think seems plau­si­ble) going to rec­og­nize rights for smart robots, there will be even less ground for fail­ing to rec­og­nize rights for non-human ani­mals.

to the david rothkopf and his mag­a­zine. anoth­er edi­tor from more mag­a­zine abby perl­man got envolved in dirty corap­tion busi­ness with crazy cbs anchor otis liv­ingston to steal mon­ey from for­eign pol­i­cy mag­a­zine’s employ­ees bank accounts. nev­er trust otis liv­ingston and abby perl­man they belongs in jail.