[milo]

so basically you want to classify chimps as retarded humans and breed retarded humans...so you can test on them?

what about the reclusive deepwater starfish of outer mongolia? it shares 50% of our dna so shouldn't it be given some rights?

personally we can't make babies with monkeys so i don't consider them human. Im willing to test on those who are able to consent to the test, and although in theory id be willing to test on those that can't consent (because they have no comprehension of it and hence it doesn't matter) i won't do in practise because they may have made their feelings clear before going into a vegetative state, or they may come out of their vegetative state and have to live with the 'results' of testing. Animals can never truly comprehend what we're doing to them so i have no problem with testing on them, any feelings of reluctance on my part anthropomorphic bollocks.