{"id":8934,"date":"2015-05-08T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:04:53","slug":"personhood-is-a-social-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/05\/08\/personhood-is-a-social-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"Personhood is a Social Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Are human beings persons?<\/p>\n

     Maybe.<\/p>\n

     But Chimpanzees are!<\/p>\n

     A judge ruled<\/a> that chimpanzees are covered by a writ of habeas corpus<\/em>.\u00a0 This implies they are persons, and not property.<\/p>\n

     Advocates from the\u00a0 Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) declared<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“We have the scientific evidence to prove in a court of law that elephants, great apes, and whales and dolphins are autonomous beings and deserve the right to bodily liberty.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     When is comes to “personhood”, it would seem that species is just a social construct<\/a>…<\/p>\n

     Of course, nothing of members of our own species being protected event hey are not ex utero<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Spot the "Person"!<\/p><\/div> <\/p>\n

     Fortunately, some sanity was reclaimed when the amended order<\/a> by the judge was altered to remove the words “writ of habeas corpus” in order to avoid the implication that a chimpanzee was more of a person than an in utero<\/em> human being.<\/p>\n

     How fleeting this sanity is, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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     Are human beings persons?      Maybe.      But Chimpanzees are!      A judge ruled that chimpanzees are covered by a writ of habeas corpus.\u00a0 This implies they are persons, and not property.      Advocates from the\u00a0 Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) declared: “We have the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[65,70,24,68],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-facepalm","tag-leviathan","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}