Image courtesy of Tomruen CC BY-SA 4.0,
JJoel Kontinen
The “nature rights” movement has launched into outer space with a Declaration of the Rights of the
Moon. They not only give credit to the Earth, that they say is our mother.
In a world seeped with Darwinian thinking, it is difficult for some
people to see that humans
are special, made in the image of God.
Animal rights activists, who tend to embrace
evolutionary thinking, have for years tried to blur the differences between
humans and animals.
In January 2008 a chimpanzee named Matthew Hiasl
Pan made headlines throughout the world as activists attempted to get the
Austrian High Court to grant it the status of a person. The court refused to do
so, however.
In June 2008 the environmental committee of the
Spanish parliament approved
a resolution that called for the right to life and freedom for great apes.
In early 2010, Thomas White, a professor of ethics
at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, caused a stir by suggesting that dolphins
should be treated as ”non-human persons."
In 2014, Professor Peter
Singer wanted to re-define chimpanzees as people.
In April 2014 animal rights activists claimed that two
research chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, were being unlawfully detained.
Some activists are not content with giving human
rights to animals. They also want to give them to
rivers.
Now, the animal rights have set their signs on the moon. Here’s what they say - that the Moon
must be given special rights.
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