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Watched the doc Unlocking the Cage last night on HBO. Very moving, incredibly interesting film about a group that is attempting to assert that certain animals (specifically those that have demonstrated extremely high cognitive capabilities, like Chimps, Elephants, Dolphins, etc) should be granted person hood under the law, preventing people from confining them and/or experimenting on them. While initially you may scoff ("They're animals, not people!") that's absolutely the distinction that they're trying to make- 'person' and 'human' are two different things under the law, and currently animals and other non-humans are seen as 'things'. Their goal is to ascribe rights to non humans such that non humans have the right to not be, basically, incarcerated. Quite compelling, very interesting, heartily recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKHheefCWMU
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