Reducing patience to a mere "coping mechanism" misses what makes virtues meaningful. The study doesn't debunk virtue; it just describes its mechanics. By this logic, we could reduce courage to "threat response management" or honesty to "cognitive consistency maintenance." The interesting finding isn't that patience has psychological underpinnings (of course it does), but that it functions primarily through emotion regulation rather than moral reasoning. Still, its moral value comes from what patient behavior enables: better social relations, more considered decisions, and recognition of values beyond immediate gratification. Mechanisms explain how virtues operate; they don't negate the virtues themselves.