One of my Canadian news aggregator sites led me to this story:
“European Court agrees to hear chimp’s plea for human rights“
I am not sure what is more bizarre… the fact that someone is actually attempting to make a case like this or the fact that the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to take the case.
The case involves a chimp in an animal sanctuary facing bankruptcy. A young woman wants to become his legal guardian to care for him if the sanctuary is forced to shut down. In order to be a ‘guardian’, the chimp has to be a person, hence this case.
Some of this young woman’s rationale:
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