Summary Of Primates And Personhood

“Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?”, by Ed Yong, is an article that explains the intentions of the Great Ape Project (GAP). The project demands a basic set of moral and legal rights for chimpanzees,gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans. Many countries have taken part of this project such as the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The message of the GAP is that the animals are not property, therefore they believe apes should not be used for

ERWC 29 September 2016 Animal Right Sources The rights for animals is a debated topic and goes back and forth with the idea that animals should have rights just like humans. The idea that animals should have rights is argued in the article “Primates and Personhood” by Ed Yong where it speaks about how chimps and gorillas should have rights and protections. The organization GAP works on helping make laws for animal rights. The first article I choose was “ Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project Inc. v Stanley”

In the article,”Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?”, author Ed Yong implies that different types of primates such as apes should be treated more like human beings. He starts by stating a claim the there is some type of schism between different types of scientists and the world. Yong also explains the the Swiss law and how it protects the “dignity” of organisms. He also states that the apes are basically in “battle” Yong then starts

Summary The concept of personhood is one of much greater complexity than the simple notion of species identification. Indeed this concept is a measure that is used to collect the traits that differentiate humans from animals, however, an important distinction to make is that it is not conceptually impossible for a nonhuman to be a person and vice versa. These differentiating traits surround the notions of free will and desire. While it is no exclusive ability of a person to desire, the distinction