This is great. Given the research in recent years showing how active plants are in interacting with their environment, I’ve been wondering (half jokingly) when the eco-fanatics would get around to plant rights.

It’s moments like this that comfort me when the progressive Left attacks Christianity for being unintellectual.

PG. . . I don’t want to sound nitpicky. . . but the way the formatting is on your quotes is hard to read. (Then again, take that with a grain of salt. . . since my first large print Bible was bought at 17. . .)

I think plants should have rights. If you had fronds you wouldn’t like people going around and snapping them off now would you?

This is quite interesting and I would like to know what the basis is for these moral rights. Do you know, PG? Is it simply ‘reason’ and ‘justification’? More info…?

I’d have to follow the links farther than I have to go deeper than this, but I assume this is from a summary with conclusions of a set of panel discussions over various options for considering this matter, followed by votes to adopt one or another position. So the answer is that there is both more and less to this than the excerpt really shows: more discussion and more points of view, to be sure, but also more politics and gestures, which means less contentful conversation, too.