If these dragons breed and bring more of their kind into the world, then inevitably they will end up running the world for their own benefit.’ ‘That sounds so selfish!’ ‘Does it? Isn’t it what humans have done for generations? We claim the land as ours and turn it to our purposes. We change the channels of rivers and the face of the land so that we can travel by boat or grow a crop or graze cattle. And we think it only natural that we should shape the whole world to be comfortable and yielding for humankind. Why should dragons be any different in how they perceive the world?’
