What I find ironic is that we experience a fair amount of cognitive disequilibrium when we discuss the legal rights of corporations in comparison with the legal

What I find ironic is that we experience a fair amount of cognitive disequilibrium when we discuss the legal rights of corporations in comparison with the legal rights of individuals, but we aren't bothered by the difference between the legal rights of humans and the legal rights of animals. IMO, the basic rights of human individuals are more similar to the rights of advanced animals (like pigs) than they are to the rights of corporations.