Bolivia says Plants have Human Rights

[MikailCaboose]

That's incredibly stupid. Every living organism that's higher up on the food chain than producers rely on the deaths of plants to sustain their life.

There's no getting around killing plants. It's practically what they're there for.

Edit: Also, I guess 'clean air' for a plant would be CO[sub]2[/sub] saturated?

Indead, seeing as their respiratory system is the complete opposite of ours.

 

[WrongSprite]

So if I was Bolivian, would I go to prison for burning dead grass and leaves on my lawn?

This makes no sense.

Since you specifically said 'dead' grass and leaves, you're not making sense. Human rights mostly end upon death. You can burn as much dead shit as you want...

 

[IzisviAziria]

OP

You try to open up a debate, but you do so in a biased way.

Uhhh.. At no point in time did I suggest that I was impartial. I simply provided my standpoint on the debate. I didn't open up a debate to not participate in it.

i am not disputing your right to have an opinion, but the way you opened the debate had a biased slant to it. You should open the debate objectively then give your opinion. You did not do this.

Very first thing I posted was the article. Therefore, what I posted was first, objective, and then opinionated. If you want a non-biased opening, you read the non-biased source material, not the summation written by a biased writer, who has clearly stated "For myself, I'll say..." IE, this is my opinion.

 

[F'Angus]

Well...um...Awesome?

 

[Kraj]

I'm moving to Bolivia. Now I can finally shout at those annoying kids next-door who walk around with a stick, which they broke off a tree, beating and whipping other trees and tearing off their bark.

No, wait... that's not going to work. I don't think putting a law in effect for something so difficult to control without gestapo level monitoring is going to do anything other than a temporary press release of green-earth style modification. Watch it fade into obscurity until it's nothing more than a Blue law touted as "aren't we great people, we're earth conscious".

OT:
It's a great idea. I'll wait 20 years and see if there's progress.

 

[smudgey]

I just had a mental image of a ficus being called into a courtroom as a star witness. I'm such a weirdo....

 

[legion431]

But then why are people still allowed to go hunting?

 

[Dense_Electric]

Humans have human rights, animals have human rights, plants have human rights, pretty soon fungi will have human rights... So what the fuck are we supposed to eat?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

That's a very dangerous law to pass. While I can see the grounds they're going for, the lawyers are going to have a field day.

 

[teebeeohh]

please change th title, plants can never have human rights because they are not human.
the idea is good, even if it just serves to make it easier to sentence people/companies to significant fines for destroying nature.

 

[LaughingAtlas]

Couldn't resist.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Bolivia? Only grows cocaine I think? I can see what they're getting at

 

[rapidoud]

Sacrifice of a few for the needs of the many.

Same reason why I think Paul had no substantial plot, I'd kill the guy in a heartbeat for the benefit of other species.

 

[Addicted Muffin]

I love it.... no for the going green aspect of it...
but for the fact that this might thin out the vegetarian/animal rights protesters...

Think about it, they protest because "animals have the same right as humans"
On some levels, yes, but if someone says "hey kill that chicken for dinner", sure I'll do it. Basic survival...
But if we say plants have the same rights, Vegetarians/Animal rights protester will have nothing to eat...
It's the perfect plan

1:give plants people rights
2: starve vegetarians
3: ???
4: profit



[for those who are unable to detect humor, I'm joking. My GF is vegan...even though it pisses me off, lol)

 

[RighteousSoup]

So we would not be able to do gardening any more then? Bummer. Would we have to respect the life cycle of weeds or poisonous plants? How about illegal plants such as coke plants or cannabis?

As one insightful poster put it before: the lawyers will have a field day!

Also if it is merely a symbolic law then it is worthless. Laws without enforcement are pointless surely?

 

[Savber]

Wow... George Carlin was right. Do we honestly have the arrogance to believe that we can save Mother Nature when we can't even solve the most basic of human nature?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

 

[MarkusWolfe]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights

One day, a fly was in the barn, eating cow manure. He ate until he was stuffed. Then he climbed up a shovel that was laying against the wall. Once he reached the handlebar, he jumped off and flapped his wings, but he had eaten too much, making himself too heavy and consequently falling to his death. Moral of the story? Never fly off the handlebar when you're full of BS.

 

[JeanLuc761]

Wow... George Carlin was right. Do we honestly have the arrogance to believe that we can save Mother Nature when we can't even solve the most basic of human nature?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

I like his line about how we don't actually care about the planet, but rather our own existence on it.

If humans disappeared tomorrow, the planet would be perfectly fine and new forms of life would go on existing.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Plants need gay rights. Afterall, all plants have both stamens and pistols which makes them all hermaphrodidic, meaning they're all the same gender. Plants MUST be given all the same marital and social rights as the LGBT community!