I am glad to grant the possibility of an intelligence being created by man sometime in our future that doesn't involve fucking. The existence of such a thing is so far away that spending serious effort on speculating about the rights one should grant such a being is on par with trying to establish a faster-than-light speed limit within the Solar System. If such beings were to band together and demand rights, i would hesitate to call them "things"; after all, a thing cannot demand rights for itself.
As it is, there is some movement that is trying to grant apes some of the rights granted to humans, as if apes were somehow part of human society. That, to me, is more unsettling.
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Date: 2007-01-03 05:44 am (UTC)As it is, there is some movement that is trying to grant apes some of the rights granted to humans, as if apes were somehow part of human society. That, to me, is more unsettling.