>Do people have a natural right to life? Humanity did not think so until relatively recently, but now we see it as obvious. So first off, did all humans not ha

>Do people have a natural right to life? Humanity did not think so until relatively recently, but now we see it as obvious. So first off, did all humans not have a natural right to life before and humanity didn't know it? "Did not think so"...what changed things? In light of questions like these, I feel like it's easiest to go with the concept that ideas like "natural rights" are socially constructed, which I'm not sure you jive with but makes the most sense to me in light of what we know from history and how it's progressed. That said, of course, we can decide that animals have natural rights too, as in we'd decide socially that they do. The only different thing to me is that for many animals, they will not be aware of this social construction we've placed them in, nor will they one day be aware. This is unlike women, races of people who aren't in the dominant group, children, as well as humans who are neurodivergent as well I'd say. In the case of people who are human, we ideally treat them as equals really due to their consciousness and awareness, while for most animals (although probably not all) we can say they are "equal" in some sense but they won't be.