Will animals rule the world? [Plese correct] I’ve heard a very strange notion recently, that in the future we won’t understand and approve the way we treat animals today. In the future we will, maybe, think that our attitude towards animal today was very similar to slavery and, maybe, animals of the future will have all rights that people now have. It could sound reasonable and logical, but It is very difficult to imagine, the world of this kind, because it’s not very clear whether all animal will have rights or just the smartest ones. I can see the world where cat has the right to eat whenever it wants and it has all rights to run in the middle of the night across your flat. If you want to have a cat in this world you will have to prove your ability to do it – pass interview and show your credit history. If you treat your cat inappropriately your neighbors can call a police and you can lose the rights to have a pet or even go to prison. My main concern is about other animal not as intelligent as mammals like fish, reptiles, snails etc. In this world could you go to prison because you forgot to feed your fish and it died consequently? Will you have right to flush it away in toilet or it will be equal of hiding the crime and this fact will sever the punishment? Or if you have a cockroaches in you apartment and you encounter several of them in the night, how you should treat them? Will you have an obligation to feed them and provide comfortable dark and cold place to hide? All this are counterintuitive situations because I cannot image a wolf that create a law and treat rabbits well because they have the same rights for living. But of cause it could be just fashionable in the future to treat even an ant with all respect.