“Ape Rights” in Spain: Merely “the Point of the Spear”

More reportage on Spain about to grant great apes “human” type rights—and a little candor from the revolutionaries. I have been saying that the GAP is not the goal but the initial means to attaining the goal, the catapault that first breaches the wall (to use another metaphor), that aims in the end to obliterate the sanctity/equality of human life ethic based simply on our being human.

Exactly the point, says the head GAP advocate in Spain the the Times of London. From the story:

Some critics questioned why Spain should afford legal protection from death or torture to great apes but not bulls. But Mr Pozas said that the vote would set a precedent, establishing legal rights for animals that could be extended to other species. “We are seeking to break the species barrier—we are just the point of the spear,” he said.

Interestingly, he used almost the exact phrase I did here at SHS when I first reported the story and analyzed what the GAP is really about:

Given that animal rights activists believe a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy, one would think the GAP would be denigrated by them as speciesist because it values apes higher than other sentient or “painient” animals. But of course, they understand the game that is afoot. They know that the GAP is a spear between the ribs of the old order because it explicitly supplants human beings as the premier species. This is a disaster for universal human rights and human exceptionalism.

Well, at least we agree about something.

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