The Infamous Dolphin Rights Episode
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this infamous episode of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager's conversation with Professor Tom White, a professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University, is a thought-provoking exploration of the moral implications of treating dolphins and whales as individuals with rights.
In this episode, White argues that dolphins and whales are not just animals, but individuals with a level of consciousness and self-awareness that is similar to humans, a concept that is baffling to Dennis.
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio |
| 0:04.0 | On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom |
| 0:07.0 | You said that the deliberate killing of a dolphin is quote, ethically the equivalent of deliberately killing a human being. |
| 0:15.0 | That's right. That's what I stand by that. |
| 0:18.0 | Deliberately killing an individual dolphin is, I would say, as bad as killing |
| 0:22.5 | a human being. |
| 0:23.4 | As bad as deliberately killing an individual human being. |
| 0:27.4 | Right. So, all right. So then I go back. Yes. So if somebody deliberately killed a whale |
| 0:31.6 | and somebody deliberately killed your child, if you have a child, forgetting the emotional pain issue. |
| 0:39.3 | All right, how about my child? |
| 0:41.0 | Because then we'll remove the emotional pain. |
| 0:44.1 | You would see that as bad as. |
| 0:48.4 | That's great. |
| 0:49.6 | Okay. |
| 0:50.1 | Then if you really believe that, do you want the penalties to be the equivalent, to use your term? |
| 0:58.4 | Should we send people who kill whales to prison for the rest of their life? |
| 1:04.1 | No, and that's because we're at, it's really too early to say what we need to do about this kind of thing. |
| 1:11.1 | That's coming up on timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 1:14.2 | Rising interest rates, stock volatility, out of control inflation. |
| 1:18.0 | People are concerned about what the future holds financially. |
| 1:20.9 | This is Dennis Prager for AmFed, coin, and bullion. |
| 1:23.6 | There's no better time than the present to move a portion of your IRA into precious metals. |
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