Culture & Ethics
Human Rights for Flies
The UK Green Party has joined the war on humans. The Party’s election platform calls for expanding the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights to all sentient life forms. From the Telegraph story:
Article Five of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, banning "inhuman" treatment, is extended to all sentient life forms.
The same prison sentences for the murder and kidnap of humans will apply to crimes involving elephants, monkeys, and whales.
Flies are sentient.
The Greens also want to stop all economic growth, which will harm the developed world and devastate the destitute. The environmental movement is growing increasingly anti-human. Case in point.
Image by James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster [CC BY-SA 2.5 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.