Within our property rights, animals are seen more as properties rather than property owners. We may keep them alive out of self interest, but we only treat them well out of altruism. The rule of law is a mix of
laws protecting animals and plants as properties, which is a rather small set of economically valuable species which aren’t treated very well
and
laws protecting animals and plants out of altruism, whether it’s animal rights or deontological environmentalism
I agree you can have degrees of cooperation between 0% and 100%. I just want to say that even powerful species with 0% cooperation among themselves can make others go extinct.
Within our property rights, animals are seen more as properties rather than property owners. We may keep them alive out of self interest, but we only treat them well out of altruism. The rule of law is a mix of
laws protecting animals and plants as properties, which is a rather small set of economically valuable species which aren’t treated very well
and
laws protecting animals and plants out of altruism, whether it’s animal rights or deontological environmentalism
I agree you can have degrees of cooperation between 0% and 100%. I just want to say that even powerful species with 0% cooperation among themselves can make others go extinct.