When Animals Sue: Animal Rights Run Amok

On this episode of What It Means To Be Human, Wesley J. Smith looks at animal standing, which "would both undermine the status of animals as property and elevate them with the force of law toward legal personhood. On an existential level, the perceived exceptional importance of human life would suffer a staggering body blow by erasing one of the clear legal boundaries that distinguishes people from animals." For more information, visit Wesley's blog, Secondhand Smoke.

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When Animals Sue: Animal Rights Run Amok is an episode from What It Means to Be Human by Wesley Smith.

This episode is 8:09 long.

This episode was published on Oct 6, 2009.

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