Gorilla’s death calls for human responsibility, not animal personhood
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Gorilla’s death calls for human responsibility, not animal personhood
Richard L. Cupp, Pepperdine University
My reaction to the killing of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo when a child went into the gorilla’s enclosure is probably typical: I am sickened and I am angry. This must not happen again.
One step that some advocates will surely press for in light of Harambe’s killing is to change our legal system to designate gorillas and other great apes such as chimpanzees as legal persons...
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