A longitudinal study from the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm found wisdom related judgment often keeps rising into people's 60s and 70s, not peaking young. My opponent says wisdom is aspiration, not achievement. I'd answer that an aspiration measurable training and life experience reliably improve is still real, just gradual. Yes, I grant AI lacks stakes. That only shows AI isn't wise. It doesn't show no human ever is. The friend dilemma: people do sit with betrayal, sometimes choose loyalty, sometimes let go, and learn. Calling that always rationalization sets the bar at perfection, then declares failure. That's a definition trick, not evidence.