Most such laws grant anyone who believes nature’s rights to have been violated standing in court to bring suit, opening the door to extreme lawfare and making it almost impossible to obtain liability insurance.
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The case did not challenge the general propriety of such “care” of minors with gender dysphoria, but alleged it was not appropriate in Fox’s particular case.
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We believe everyone should be equally protected under the law, and that all animals deserve equal consideration, regardless of whether or not we consider them our companions. All animals deserve a life free from cruelty.
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Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.
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People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.
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Chatbots aren’t necessities. Meanwhile, long-esteemed laws and rules of conduct forbade slander and libel because they can seriously harm people.
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Burrows proposes an approach he calls “just preservation,” which would treat wild animals as the moral and legal equals of humans.
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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict.
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This bill vividly illustrates the authoritarian impulses of the “nature rights” movement specifically and its embrace of toxic anti-humanism generally.
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Like so much of contemporary “nature rights” advocacy, this is nonsense. A forest does not have agency and can’t author anything. It is incapable of creative acts.
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There are plenty of dramatic stories illustrating the abuses and dangers of assisted suicide, just waiting to be told, but Hollywood won’t tell them.
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Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason and evidence. They won’t part lightly with their new freedom.
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The question of whether nature should own stock is ridiculous on its face. But that doesn’t stop environmental radicals from furthering that cause. Indeed, at least one privately held company has put “nature” on its board of directors. Now, a leading New Zealand law firm Parry Field — which represents nonprofit organizations — has published a paper urging that “nature” become an owner of companies. The author, one of the partners, named Steven Moe, goes wrong right off the bat. From “Nature as a Shareholder“: When speaking, I often hold up an apple and ask what the potential is — maybe an apple pie, sliced into a salad, or perhaps some apple cider? No — the true potential are the seeds inside which Read More ›
Research presented at a 2025 Microsoft Research meet finds that people tend to think less carefully and critically when they rely on GenAI and online sources.
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Most nature rights laws permit anyone who believes that “nature’s rights” are being violated to sue on nature’s behalf, creating serious lawfare possibilities.
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When we swipe a phone or tap a touchscreen, few of us realize how much engineering — and legal grit — underlies that simple gesture. In an interview with Mind Matters podcasting, inventor Hal Philipp traces the path from lone tinkerer to successful founder, and finally to weary veteran of patent warfare. Philipp, a key inventor behind modern capacitive sensing and touchscreens, delivers a sober message for innovators: invention is only half the battle; defending your invention can define your company’s fate. From Single-Point Touch to a Full Touchscreen Philipp’s early work focused on single-channel capacitive sensors — one-button touch or proximity detection. The breakthrough came when he generalized the idea into linear touch sliders and then into a circular Read More ›
The vaunted international community is going all-in on radical environmentalism that, if enacted widely, would gut human prosperity.
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Most people still don’t take “nature rights” seriously because it is clearly irrational. But that’s a huge mistake. Their cause is accelerating.
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The pirated digital book copies sank Anthropic on a fundamental point. It was not “fair use.”
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