primate rights

Ok going back to the actual argument for one gets off topic. Monkeys shouldn"t be considered persons because they can be taught to do "human-like" things. A monkey will never be what is defined a human, maybe slightly close, but never in the same category. For example, Tommy, 26, lives on a trailer lot in Gloversville, New York, with only a television for company. Tommy is a chimpanzee, and if the organization seeking to free him and move him to a sanctuary wins a lawsuit it filed today, the result could have implications for how we view " and treat " our closest animal relatives. Just because Tommy watches television, it doesn"t make him the bit most close to a human being. But the mid-level appeals court said there is no precedent for treating animals as persons and no legal basis. "So far as legal theory is concerned, a person is any being whom the law regards as capable of rights and duties," the judges wrote. Needless to say, unlike human beings, chimpanzees cannot bear any legal duties, submit to societal responsibilities or be held legally accountable for their actions." Monkeys can"t abide by the laws that humans do. In human society we pay taxes, rent/mortgage, drive, etc. a monkey can"t do any of that. We can"t hold a monkey responsible for the actions that commit if they were considered persons. As you said about teaching them while they"re young whereas to the human child is, they still don"t develop the ability to make vast and lifelong decisions that humans can. Although you can try and house-raise a monkey so they can try to fit into society, they will never live up to expectations whereas to if a child were placed in the wild and they could. Here"s an example: 1. Raised by monkeys when she was about five years old, Marina Chapman says she was kidnapped, probably for ransom, but was then abandoned in the Colombian jungle. For some five years, she lived out in the wild, where she was taken in by a group of capuchin monkeys, which experts say are known to accept young children into their fold. The animals taught young Marina how to catch birds and rabbits with her bare hands, so she was able to survive. She rejoined the human world when she was taken by hunters and sold to a brothel, from which she eventually escaped. There"s more examples of cats, dogs, goats, etc. raising a human child. Yes monkeys can be taught to do certain human-like tricks, but they can never do normal things a human does to go on day to day"can they cook? Or will they always eat bananas and sit and watch TV? " Of course it"s adorable but it does nothing to the human race. In response to you saying my premise 10 is irrelevant: we"re not talking about what and who rights were originally for, we"re talking about now. I"m not talking about during slavery years you racist, race and property has nothing to do with what I am saying, and I"m talking about the human field in general meaning races and criteria now. I use the link between how one adapts and rights because monkeys can"t adapt to the lifestyle that humans live, they"re too much of a wild animal no matter what they were taught. Although we all know this is a fictional movie, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", gives an example of how even a house-raised, human treated monkey still couldn"t behave civilized and follow human society as he grew older. The movie is about a house-raised chimpanzee, Ceasar, whose intelligence is increased from inheriting ALZ-112 from his mother during her pregnancy, and who is raised by Will for eight years. He leads an ape revolution against humanity. Because an ape revolution against humanity was evolved, they couldn"t legally be held accountable for their actions, they couldn"t be sentenced to jail for years"be read their rights and etc. they were mostly killed. Although Ceaser was increasingly smart, like most monkeys, he still didn"t have the human-like ability to be able to control his wrongful actions. Ok so maybe animal rights should be a little stricter, but for them to be considered human and have the same rights as a humans is a little absurd.