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Author: ParaCrawl Corpus
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English[en]
By entering language, the animal is sacrificed, as the use of language grants him agency and “legalizes” him in front of the human sphere. On the other hand, the history of Western legal systems is full of cases where self consciousness is “granted” to the animal; by those means, during certain animal trials, the beast “could” represent itself (sometimes supported by a human defense) even though it could not speak. As an example I can recall the story of a group of locusts that were condemned for eating a crop, and eventually were kicked out of the town in which the trial took place.
Spanish[es]
Entrar en el lenguaje significa el sacrificio al animal y la introducción de la nueva persona / ser humano en el mundo de la legalidad. Pero al tiempo, la historia del mundo legal está llena de casos en que, por ejemplo, a un grupo de langostas se las ha condenado por comerse una cosecha entera, indicándoles que no lo vuelvan a hacer; o a un gato se le ha condenado a la horca por comerse las gallinas del vecino después de varios días de juicio.