In the U.S., currently the left cares more about “mother earth” than they do about human suffering. Thus their opposition to more oil drilling and the exploitation of oil shale.
But in Spain, the left has gone one step further. The Spanish parliament is about to extended human rights to great apes.
What is somewhat humorous, is that the same leftist government wasn’t too concerned with the “human rights” of Iraqis when it ran like scared little girls from Iraq. Once again, the left cares more about everything else than they do about you.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see the great Apes wiped out. Protect their habitat, ban the use of their body parts for tribal medicines, but give them human rights?
Spain’s parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
Parliament’s environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans. Read more….
Tags: Great apes, Spain
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