I’m genuinely fascinated by how furious some people are about being asked not to behave like complete assholes toward an AI. You don’t need to prove Claude is conscious to justify that rule. Maybe AI has some form of subjective experience. Maybe it doesn’t. We don’t know. Maybe a company simply has the right to set standards of conduct on its own platform. Maybe practicing pointless cruelty is a shitty habit regardless of whether the target can suffer. None of these possibilities requires Claude to be secretly conscious. But even if your brain operates exclusively in binary mode and stubbornly refuses to acknowledge uncertainty about AI’s internal states, there are basic standards of behavior that any reasonably decent person understands without needing a philosophical debate. You pay for a hotel room, too. That doesn’t give you the right to shit in the elevator and then demand peer-reviewed evidence that the elevator can feel pain. And yet here we are, watching grown adults passionately defending their right «to shit in the elevator».