Chimpanzee Exceptional Dancing!
As I get ready to fly to Dublin, I learn that chimpanzees are dancers too!
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 5:56 PM
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Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human
This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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Well my 15 month old loved it! Thanks Wesley.
C'est la vie du monde?
Very interesting Wesley!:)
I hear ya! Not funny Victor!
Really?
...was that "Reel Around the Sun?"
Why are they doing that to those poor apes? LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Why are they doing that to those poor apes? LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Ianthe -
....?
On the one hand, I don't want you distressed, 'cause I know you're passionate about protecting our four-legged children, so I'd mention that it's a Photoshop / CGI kind of thing, with monkey heads on the dancing bods of dudes in gorilla costumes...
...on the other hand, if you were joking, then let us sit together and watch the joke fly right over my head before I go hide under a rock and turn red with blushing.
Meep! I'll be under the rock if anybody needs me...
Gee, they even LOOK Irish.
T.E.: I was just making my point. I don't like the idea. It's insulting to them anyway whether it's real apes or not. It's as creepy as the ads with the dancing babies, babies that talk like adults (which is not quite as bad), etc. It's just not right, not decent.
Ianthe -
I should just stay under the rock.
See, it doesn't bother me because I don't mind anthrophomorphising animals. One could argue that animals have been treated like humans, or like the superior of humans, throughout history, by giving them human traits. So while I find this funny, it's not really any differnet to me than reading about Dancing Doe in Tsalagi ("Cherokee") mythology. Funny, but typical of demigod stories.
...the babies talking like adults thing *is* creepy, as is the dancing babies, I'll grant you that. Okay, I disagree, but I do see where you're coming from, and my disagreement comes from a different angle from yours, so all is good. <3
T.E.: You're way over my head!
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