Posted on 11/07/2019 10:11:43 AM PST by RideForever
Protected or has human rights?
Hmmm.
This was predicted, and I believe is happening elsewhere. Slippery slope . . .
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Book Title: Jerry Was A Man, by Robert A. Heinlein
©1947 Better Publications, Inc.
. . . Don’t blame the Martians. The human race would have developed plasto-biology in any case.
Look at the older registered Kennel Club breeds—glandular giants like the St. Bernard and the Great Dane, silly little atrocities like the Chihuahua and the Pekingese. Consider fancy goldfish.
The damage was done when Dr. Morgan produced new breeds of fruit flies by kicking around their chromosomes with X-ray. After that, the third generation of the Hiroshima survivors did not teach us anything new; those luckless monstrosities merely publicized standard genetic knowledge.
Mr. and Mrs. Bronson van Vogel did not have social reform in mind when they went to the Phoenix Breeding Ranch; Mr. Van Vogel simply wanted to buy a Pegasus. He had mentioned it at breakfast. “Are you tied up this morning, my dear?”
“Not especially. Why?”
“I’d like to run out to Arizona to order a Pegasus designed.”
“A Pegasus? A flying horse? Why, my sweet?”
He grinned. “Just for fun. Pudgy Dodge was around the Club yesterday with a six-legged dachshund—must have been over a yard long. It was clever, but he swanked so much I want to give him something to stare at. Imagine, Martha—me landing on the Club ‘copter platform on a winged horse. That’ll snap his eyes back!”
She turned her eyes from the Jersey shore to look indulgently at her husband. She was not fooled; this would be expensive. . .
https://www.willmorgan.org/Robert_A_Heinlein-Jerry_Was_A_Man.htm
Warren Zevon - Gorilla, You’re A Desperado - 4/18/1980 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-6bfdQCQs
The first three usually require the ability to read.
The fourth does not.
From your book,
“See here, Sidney, I didn’t get you over here to tell me how this can’t be done. If what I want isn’t legal, then get a law passed.”
Sound like any group we know of?
I’ve read the entire thread and cannot believe that someone didn’t post a pic/clip of Clint Eastwood and his friend Clyde.
We did get a reference to a Heinlein sicance fiction that was close. An ape was classified as a man.
There is a link up above if you like Heinlein’s work.
Now we’re having to take in the world’s refuzees?
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