Reply to post: Re: Interesting principles behind this

Monkey selfie case settles for a quarter of future royalties

DavCrav

Re: Interesting principles behind this

"Now, is this not effectively finding it guilty of killing a human (murder) and then exacting a punishment (death row) just like if it was a human being?"

No. It's more akin to redesigning a bad junction, callous as that sounds. There's no trial, no jury, etc. Instead it's a safety issue: there's a threat to human safety and that threat is removed.

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