Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons'

[Cyn]

now cows, on the other hand, just sit around and look stupid - thus I am fine with steak.

Domestication has horrible side effects on animals.

[Kryssan]

You'd think if they were so smart they'd avoid fishing ships.

Darwinism at it's finest if you ask me.

You'd think humans could do that too, but the Navies of the world continue to prove that submarines are just like really, really heavy fish.

[Kuya]

I think agree with this, but i suppose the point of saying that they should be considered non-human persons is that they be aforded some form of right. Perhaps making it murder to kill a dolphin? I don't know if it's already illegal to kill dolphins, if so, then perhaps harsher penalties.

[Antithesis]

Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”.

B u l l s h i t

Third? Sure, but second? Nah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rfGEtALHYs

Dolphins don't fucking speak my language (Even if it is Mimicry.)

[Plow]

dolphins should be treated as 'non-human' persons

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pu...liams_0804.jpg

Ricky does not approve.

[Kuya]

Doesn't look human, so i don't see the problem.

[Mayareira]

You'd think if they were so smart they'd avoid fishing ships.

Darwinism at it's finest if you ask me.

Humans aren't any better.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6218274.ece

[zoobernut]

B u l l s h i t

Third? Sure, but second? Nah:

Dolphins don't fucking speak my language (Even if it is Mimicry.)

You are clouded by the fact that it speaks a human language which in the human species clearly does not have too strong of a correlation with intelligence.

[BRP]

This is how it starts. Anti-human propaganda.

[Pirian]

Domestication has horrible side effects on animals.

Humans domesticated themselves, funnily enough

[Kerberoz]

B u l l s h i t

Third? Sure, but second? Nah:

Dolphins don't fucking speak my language (Even if it is Mimicry.)

Parrots don't think beyond basic object recognition. Corvids are actually smarter than any parrot, if you want to talk about birds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg

Clever girl...

[Plow]

Doesn't look human, so i don't see the problem.

That's funny, coming from a Mexican.

[Correction]

Parrots don't think beyond basic object recognition. Corvids are actually smarter than any parrot, if you want to talk about birds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg

Clever girl...

the rest of that video is goddamn amazing

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j..._of_crows.html

[Kuya]

That's funny, coming from a Mexican.

What Mexican?

[Shiroikage]

What Mexican?

Why are you being so willfully ignorant, Kuya?

[Kuya]

I don't know what you mean, shiro.

[Shiroikage]

Kuya, you are entering a world of pain.

[Kuya]

Au contraire, ignorance is bliss.

[Khajit]

Ant get smarter and smarter as more of them are around.
10 army ants together will run in circles until they die.
A colony will use "advanced" tactics for catching prey, regulate temperatures, keep accurate time etc.


That got your attention?
Now consider that there is a ant colony spanning 4 continents with 200 million anthills having tens of thousands of ants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/8127519.stm

I for one welcome our insect overlords.

[Sylvrdragon]

Thomas White, professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, who has written a series of academic studies suggesting dolphins should have rights, will speak at the same conference.

“The scientific research . . . suggests that dolphins are ‘non-human persons’ who qualify for moral standing as individuals,” he said.

There should be a fucking law against stupid liberal douchebags interpreting real scientific research. It's assholes like this that gave us idiocy like "Intelligent Design".