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A relapsing reformed physicist.
Saturday April 27, 2002
09:07 AM
More lawyers required
It seems that the Monkeys are men meme has surfaced again, and that they should obtain legal representation because they share 98.7% of our genetic code. I wonder if this means quite what the tree (ape?) hugging statisticians would have us believe... after all, most of our genetic code is, strictly speaking, inactive rubbish -- is it this part we share? Also, does this mean fish should gain 24.5% of the rights of a person?
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Even worse, in my opinion, it bases animal rights solely on their "resemblence", genetic and behaviorally, on humans, which I think is a terrible position for any animal rights activist to take.
Animal rights should be based on something more concrete, like their abili