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If we regard human rights as something possessed by all human beings, no matter how limited their intellectual or emotional capacities may be, how can we deny similar rights to great apes, who clearly surpass some human beings in their rationality, self-awareness, and emotional bonds with others?

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After she got it, "She was happy to report that she has discovered that he possessed a double who was rich, virile, handsome and aristocratic."

But they thought that, if you had a neurologic or psychiatric disease, it must be because you are possessed by an evil spirit.

So if you are possessed by an evil spirit causing neurologic or psychiatric problems, then the way to treat this is, of course, to make a hole in your skull and let the evil spirit escape.

I don't want it to be at MoMA and possessed by MoMA.

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