Which is the better route to take? Do we call animals people, or do we fashion them a new category?
This is a perfect question because it is exactly what I wrote my Q and A on. I don’t think we can consider animals as persons or as property. We need a new category. Animals are not people, humans are people. We are on a different intellectual level than animals and as humans we would, in most cases, choose the human life over the animal life. They are not things either, they are living creatures. Animals however do deserve rights and they deserve justice. Animals deserve a category in law that is made for them. They need laws that protect their rights and should not be thrown in the same category as either persons or things.
One of my questions for my Q and A is: Should there be a set of laws to distinguish which animals, possibly based on intellectual levels and human-like qualities, are given the most “person like” rights? Who would be qualified to make these laws? I think apes are more intellectually capable then say a dog and a dog more than an ant. So should we have different laws protecting animals, in their own animal laws category, based on those qualities of the species?
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