The grasping at philosophical concepts as it relates to the rights of nuts and bolts combined with computer languages (or even neural nets) is absurd. These are not sentient creatures grown from nature, but assembled. <br>Unuseful human behavior directed at anything is an issue with the person exhibiting the behavior, and is NOT a reason to bestow rights onto the object of the person's bad behavior.<br>In other words, fix the idiot that thinks shooting a rhumba is okay.  Legislating behavior through arbitrary rights assignment will not change behavior.