A Mountain and an Elephant have Personhood?

An exclamation of amazement at absurdity is, "How dumb can you get?" It implies that stupidity cannot get much worse. Someone pointed out that it seems like a challenge, so: "How dumb can you get? Hold my beer!" We have contenders from the nature rights movement.

Those addlepated folks at the Nonhuman Rights Project tried to get personhood status for an elephant, but that was overturned. They are still trying. Also, there is no mention if hallucinogenic substances were a factor, but a mountain is legally a person with rights and responsibilities.

Elephant reading a book, made with Bing Image Generator and enhanced

The Nonhuman Rights Project keeps trying to get legislation for critters to be granted personhood. They failed in the People's Republic of New York, so they turned their attention to getting a pachyderm made a person in Colorado. Those people weren't having it. The whole idea is infested with ridiculous ideas and contradictions.

In New Zealand, the expression "You rock!" takes a more literal meaning, as the mountain Taranaki Maunga was given rights and responsibilities as a person. The author of the article pointed out that it would be impossible to sue it because it is responsible for an avalanche. Set aside land by law, sure, countries do it all the time with things like national parks. But personhood? That's extreme absurdity, old son. An article related to these subjects is"Animal Rights and Criminality."

The author of the two articles linked above did not say this, but personhood belongs to persons. Humans. Nature rights extremists are following evolutionary thinking on one hand (we all evolved from a common ancestor), and on the other is animism. As I see it, rebellion against God is increasing, and even defies simple logic. He created humans in his image and gave us stewardship over the earth. Cowboy up and deal with it.