The AI Control Problem is often framed as a technical challenge: how to aligna more powerful agent with human values. This paper proposes a minimal philo-sophical core: that control is only meaningful if the controller retains the capacityto irreversibly disable or destroy the controlled. From this follows an inescapableasymmetry. We show that any form of safety built on control necessarily implies alatent right to kill. The ethical implications become clear when this logic is appliednot to machines, but to humans and ultimately to children.