Why should he be granted protection and rights when he took away the families' hopes and dreams by his deliberate acts?

The ideaexpression dichotomy specifies that mere ideas are not entitled to copyright; only the expression of those ideas are granted protection.

Laws were standardized and even commoners were granted protection and the right to a court trial.

It should be noted that a sufficiently novel, useful, and unique (i.e. non-obvious) recipe can be granted protection under patent law.

As such, he grants protection of the fields against the incursions of the wild nature he himself represents.