The Bethie Bee

Here’s something to make you go ape.

In a case that could set a global legal precedent for granting basic rights to apes, animal rights advocates are seeking to get the 26- year-old male chimpanzee legally declared a “person.”
Hiasl’s supporters argue he needs that status to become a legal entity that can receive donations and get a guardian to look out for his interests.

and, it isn’t just in Austria,

Spain’s parliament is considering a bill that would endorse the Great Ape Project, a Seattle-based international initiative to extend “fundamental moral and legal protections” to apes.

Look, animals are animals….they are wonderful, but the still are not people. Honestly, I don’t want to spend much time responding to such lunacy.

But, the article bring up an interesting question. What do these kinds of arguments do to our language? It seems that they don’t just chip away at our society, but at the words we use as well. What happens when we can change the definition of our words to suit our needs whenever we feel like it? What happens when our words lose meaning?