JUDGE DENIES REQUEST TO GRANT ELEPHANTS ‘PERSONHOOD’
Thought you should know now that there’s never going to be an end to the fight about Corporations being “persons” while the government maintains that Corporations are “persons” and gives them much better tax breaks than “real” people. So, here the battle is brought out in an entirely creative way, but I’ll bet this will go on and on and on, with different objects and animals being taken into Court for view and asserted as “persons” just like Corporations are “persons” according the the U.S. Supreme Court.
JUDGE DENIES REQUEST TO GRANT ELEPHANTS ‘PERSONHOOD’ Published Dec 28, 2017
…” elephants have a sense of self, remember the past and plan for the future,
engage in complex communication, show empathy, and mourn their dead.”