Its the first emergency soft fork with a goal of preventing legal blowback. It normalizes consensus-level behavioral gating for “safety”. That’s an open door for later parameterization under new banners (AI-safety, “public health”, carbon, “foreign influence”, “exclude sanctioned payload types for safety”, “restrict non-KYC script paths for safety”, etc). Lawmakers can simply point to “Bitcoin already excludes Y”, and press for Z (e.g., “exclude sanctioned payload types”, “restrict non-KYC script paths”). You’ve demonstrated precedent and capability. Even a temporary soft-fork normalizes the idea that “Bitcoin can move for safety”. Political attack surface increases either way - Fail path: “You refused; now we must legislate.” - Pass path: “See? You acknowledged duty of care. Now make it permanent and broader.”