Recently a primate who snapped a rather rakish selfie had his "personhood" denied by courts -- which also scuttled the world's first attempt to assign a copyright to a monkey. No joke. But think about it. Isn't a primate that can make photographic art much more of a "person" than a glob of jelly and some cartilage? Right-to-lifers have a pretty skewed view of "life."
Recently a primate who snapped a rather rakish selfie had his "personhood" denied by courts -- which also scuttled the world's first attempt to assign a copyright to a monkey. No joke. But think about it. Isn't a primate that can make photographic art much more of a "person" than a glob of jelly and some cartilage? Right-to-lifers have a pretty skewed view of "life."