2007-06-08 05:52:36 · 10 answers · asked by !@#%&! 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I think the depth of this question has gone unnoticed - not surprising.
We extend rights to animals, who can encounter a world. We extend rights to plants, who cannot. A rock or a stone cannot encounter a world, but it can be as much a part of world as a plant - should we extend rights to rocks and stones?
This is an ethical question, not strictly a 'practical' one.
It is the same question as 'does a blade of grass have buddha nature?'
2007-06-08 06:07:29 · update #1
The concept of rights is contested, and what is given rights has many political implications. Terribly, if people do not even give unborn human beings rights, it is unlikely that they will recognize the rights of a stone.
Most concepts of rights are antropocentric. Thus, persons who hold the antropocentric view of rights generally do not consider inanimate objects as having rights. Among the antropocentrists, some consider rights as inalienable and belonging to instrinsically valuable moral agents. Others consider rights as socially and legally assigned personal characteristics. Yet others consider that rights can belong to objects or places that humans extrinsically value.
There are some ethical thinkers, such as deep ecologists, who accept that rights can belong to both animate subjects and inanimate objects and physical places. I think that stones can have various rights. The types of rights and values of rights that stones have depend on certain universal standards and their contextual specificities.
2007-06-09 10:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by MindTraveler 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
I think that the only way to infringe on its rights is to pour concrete over it,or pave over it.
Its best to just let it crumble. If a child picks it up and throws it at something, I think that's quite a compliment, especially if he hits his target (excluding windows, although that could be deviantly fun to be involved in that story).
2007-06-08 14:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by Teaim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but sadly the stupidest, most childish human does.
2007-06-08 05:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, you give up all rights when you get stoned.
2007-06-08 05:57:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Errr...? No. It is an inanimate object. Go ahead and blast it with your Ray-gun spaceboy.
2007-06-08 05:56:18 · answer #5 · answered by booman17 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
nope, stoners do though, and the rolling stones do, and if your last name is stone you do,
2007-06-08 05:56:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grow up.
2007-06-08 05:55:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
no its jus a rock
2007-06-08 05:56:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
if it belongs to a liberal it thinks it does.
2007-06-08 05:56:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No.
2007-06-08 05:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋