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Utilitarian Philosophers
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We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.” So reads the Declaration on Great Apes, a statement issued by the Great Ape Project.
Co-founded in 1993 by the Australian-born ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, the project’s ultimate goal is for chimps and other great apes to be granted three ‘human’ rights: the right to life, to liberty and to protection from torture. “The fact that they clearly have some self-awareness shows that we should treat them differently,” says Singer. “The case for granting them some basic rights is a stronger one than might be made for mice and other animals.”
Singer believes the Seattle-based project has influenced reforms enacted over the past decade. Chimpanzees are used far less often in invasive biomedical research than they used to be, and when they are too old or sick to be used in research, scientists now retire them to sanctuaries, instead of killing them. “I think we’ve had some impact in spreading this consensus,” he says.
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