Why Animals Have No Rights. Animal Rights as a Deconstruction of the Idea of Subjective Rights

The proposal for granting subjective rights to animals and other non-human beings (plants, things, artificial intelligence), albeit formulated more and more often and already reflected in positive law, is still far from being fully implemented and remains the subject of criticism. In this paper, I put forward the thesis that granting subjective rights to animals may lead to a weakening of the importance of subjective rights both as ethical postulates and legal institutions. I place the animal rights slogan within a broader ideological and political trend to deprive subjective rights of specific content, pointing to the ontological and ethical presuppositions associated with it.