r/BeAmazed • u/LarryKeene • Mar 03 '25

Animal Orangutan asked to see one-month-old baby! šŸ§”

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u/runningoutofnames57 Mar 03 '25

They are so incredibly intelligent and the way we treat them is so sad

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u/GlitteringBicycle172 Mar 03 '25

As far as I'm concerned, personhood doesn't start and stop with us. I could argue that a lot of animals have personhood, but I even see ants as tiny people since I learned they can recognize themselves as individuals in a mirror.

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u/AssistanceCheap379 Mar 03 '25

Good news then, cause there is an Orangutan named Sandra that was granted ā€œnon-human personhoodā€ in Florida of all places some years ago.

The precedent is here and it can absolutely be argued that all great apes are non-human persons and that this should apply to more animals

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u/Okish-Mathematician Mar 03 '25

She was granted it in Argentina, she lives in Florida now.Ā 

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u/KououinHyouma Mar 03 '25

Iā€™m pretty sure in India dolphins are legally considered nonhuman persons.

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u/Ok-Cat-8959 Mar 03 '25

It didnā€™t work out so well for Ted.

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u/shutyerfizzace Mar 03 '25

Peter Singer wrote about this. You may well know about him but if you don't, check him out.