Terrifying/Inspiring Thought of the Week
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The King of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people has called for whales to be granted the same legal rights as people in a bid to protect the hallowed yet vulnerable species.
Why stop there?
Legal rights are so weird.
Inventions of people so disconnected from reciprocity and accountability they needed to create rules to ensure people acted appropriately, as if when left to their own devices healthy communities would descend into chaos and murder. Actually they tend to descend into feudalism (see Frank Herbert’s thinking, Dune etc)
At least that’s the excuse, legal systems are originally invented to control populations (king decrees the laws...) , and then leveraged by the populations over time to gain ‘rights’ back.
So where is the unhealth in our community? From what belief or ideal does it stem? For ‘Human nature’ (if there is such a thing) I am quite certain does not entail drilling oil and turning whales into candles.