if whales are people, they should beware
Natalie Angier, in her New York Times article ‘Save a Whale, Save a Soul, Goes the Cry‘ quotes biologists who equate the cetaceans’s mental and social abilities as being on par with people’s. Granting personhood to these creatures will not protect them from being ‘harvested’ by actual people, however, given how we kill our fellow humans with impunity. Call them communists or terrorists or islamofascist or just plain evil and they become worthy of slaughter.
Or just spew a few million barrels of oil their way and let’s see how smart they are. Whatever. The whales aren’t hiring.