@Theaetetus,
What some one said about automobile motors might work for you: Parts left off don't cost money, and don't affect profits... So; why are parts put on that people as soon take off??? Do they know better than the companies that made the junk to begin with???
As long as I am talking of motors consider... There is truth in every motor, and in fact, they work on truth... Every motor as fact must be true to the design and the design must be true to the concept and the concept must be true to reality... And yes, that is physical reality, and it is truth...
The truth as a moral matter, as I said, occupies our time and our thoughts; but if there is no such moral form representing a certain moral condition, and we are not in some sense improved by talking about it, then why would we bother??? Consider that many of the things we talk about today we as humanity talked about since primitive times when we did not have such leisure, when to move people moved on foot, so that they were inclined to leave behind all they could not live without, and yet they carried on their talk of truth, and virtue, and justice, and every moral form... Why, unless there was some necessity for it???