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Mick Foley, a.k.a. the wrestler Mankind, is the author of Have a Nice Day and appears in the documentary Beyond...
...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business. The public hates lawyers, and the idea of court-clogging animal-rights litigation makes eyes roll. Wise's job is to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance--the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis, Aristotle and the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy in which man may use all subordinate creation as he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...
...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business; the public hates lawyers, anyway. Wise wants to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance -- the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis and by the work of Aristotle, both of which set up the Great Chain of Being, a universal hierarchy in which preeminent man may use all subordinate creation however he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...
...should have legal rights," Wise says -- only those entitled to them by reason of mental powers and self-awareness. It seems to be all right to boil lobsters, by the way, since they have no brain cortex or its equivalent. Wise's argument seems to denigrate the divinity of mankind, and perhaps of all creation -- an unnecessary public relations error, I would argue, and perhaps a massive missing of the central point: a holiness and beauty in the world that makes stewardship the only civilized behavior. "But I am a lawyer," Wise tells me, "not a poet or theologian...
...speech was sponsored by Encouraging Mankind to Perceive Others With Equal Respect (EMPOWER), The Harvard Foundation, the Ann Radcliffe Trust, and the Radcliffe Union of Students...