It doesn’t matter to me whether he existed or not. What matters is that exhausti

It doesn’t matter to me whether he existed or not. What matters is that exhaustion of direct opportunity for cooperation is *scientifically* the optimum cooperative strategy, and that by limiting it to direct action within the society where one possesses sufficient knowledge to claim he does good without harm caused by externality, is a sufficient method of eliminating virtue spirals and free riding.

It doesn’t matter to me whether achilles existed or not, it matters to me that the ordeal of the warrior (the necessity of tragedy) is ‘true’.

It doesn’t matter to me that Alexander was an unpleasant fellow or that Aristotle was wrong in his physics.

What matters is that (a) claims of wisdom and truth are not conflated, (b) claims of myth and history are not conflated (c) claims of good are in fact good and bad are in fact bad, (d) that every possible fictional statement be eliminated from every narrative including the pseudorational, pseudoscientific, and pseudomythical.