The Pebble and the Avalanche

Plant Rights

The Swiss government wants to protect the "rights" and "dignity" of plants (PDF format); here's an interesting analysis. In my opinion, this is a failure of disaggregation: the Swiss government experts fail to distinguish between sentient and non-sentient living objects.

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