Attorney for the Animals, Your Honor
In memory of Steve Wise, a tireless defender of animal rights. The post Attorney for the Animals, Your Honor appeared first on Nautilus.
What is a person?
Is it determined by what someone is able to think, feel, and do? Or by something else, such as the category into which they were born?
This is a profound question, central to how we see ourselves and the rest of the living world. Steven Wise, who passed away last week at the age of 73 from brain cancer, devoted his life to it.
I met Steve 12 years ago after attending about how whales and dolphins are so intelligent that they deserve to have legal rights. One—a feat considered evidence of human-style self-awareness—and she mentioned her work with a group called the Nonhuman Rights Project. Wise was its founder. I called him up.
