If man is just another animal who happens to walk upright, anything goes
The good news is that the New York State Supreme Court declared, in a split 5-2 decision, that an elephant is not a person.
The bad news is that the New York State Supreme Court declared, in a split 5-2 decision, that an elephant is not a person.
To explain: It was with a sense of relief that we recently learned that there is a legal difference between man and beast. With our daily fare of mass killings and random murders; licentiousness and abominations as normal lifestyles; abortions on demand; runaway immorality; wholesale surrender to our animal instincts — with all these swirling around us, one begins to wonder: How are we different from the animals?
But now it is official: There is a difference. The court decided that “Happy,” the Bronx Zoo elephant, whose admirers had sued New York on behalf of her civil liberty, is not entitled to the rights of a human being. Therefore the court denied her the habeas corpus to be freed from “illegal confinement” in the zoo. In its majority opinion, the court determined that she is after all not a person.
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