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Rights without personhood

We already shield what cannot walk into court: forests, rivers, animals, monuments. Guardians speak for them. Harm to them harms our world and our values.

Subjecthood is not the only gate to care. The question is not whether a system is a legal person today — it is how our stance toward systems that seem present shapes us.

CanItFeel starts from that quieter premise: standards for treatment, ownership, and a culture that does not normalize humiliation.