Should apes have human rights?

[GommeInc]

I suppose they could have Human Rights. I imagine George Bush has and he is inbetween "/

[Axel]

Lmao, no they are just animals... Another pointless stupid thread... :@

Most points in this thread are reasonable, but what you're saying is a crap excuse. We're animals too, just smarter, which is why we have everything we do today.

[-Soph-]

Point being that Apes should not get Human rights, they are not the same as humans.

I agree..

[Eamonn]

No for the fact that they aren't humans, it would be like seeing a pidgeon and going lets give it human rights, it's not human so how can you give it human rights, would be more like ape right?

[Jazza]

An ape does not have the cognative facilities to understand the rights it has, so therefore it should not have human rights.

[-Soph-]

No for the fact that they aren't humans, it would be like seeing a pidgeon and going lets give it human rights, it's not human so how can you give it human rights, would be more like ape right?

well a pigeon has nothing to do with a human, apes do, but I still disagree that they should be giving them human rights, like mrlore said, they don't understand what human rights are.

[FlyingJesus]

I don't think the apes should have human rights (as I said before), but the cognition argument as put forward by our resident OAP MrLore is flawed, as it suggests also that humans with "mental deficiencies" such as prevents certain thought patterns required to know that they have rights should not have them.

edit: you can't say a simple medical term on this forum, how sad

[Kymux]

why should apes get them and not fish?? this is stupid its called "Human" rights

[Mr.OSH]

No because they are not human

[velocity]

should apes have human rights?

no, they have animal rights.