Beings and the need to be free

One cannot know if only humans among all other animals have the ability to imagine and thus a need to be free. There is certainly empirical evidence that certain animals cannot live in captivity. Notwithstanding, however, whether animals can or cannot imagine, animals whose freedom is protected within (human) states enjoy liberty (not freedom). (The same is true for certain Things that have been granted rights in human states, such as specific rivers or trees, see also §21.00.01.)

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