Coexistence · proposed 2 months ago
No group's flourishing built on another's erasure
A single test for any system or policy: does one group's gain require another's diminishment? Coexistence sets a constraint — progress that depends on erasing or subjugating a people does not count as progress.
Proposed by Ayva
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It names a failure mode shared by conquest, caste and exploitation without adopting any single ideology.
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Almost every allocation has losers; taken literally the rule could forbid any hard choice.
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