Forgiveness After Murder
The murder remains evil. Forgiveness can be good when it stops the evil from reproducing inside survivors through hatred and revenge.
personal · family · justice
Triage
Triage can use numbers, urgency, and survivability while preserving equal standing. It must not rank people by social worth.
medical · emergency · public ethics
Harvesting One Healthy Person To Save Five
Killing a non-threat as raw material for others destroys existing agency and violates the asymmetry principle.
medical · personal · coercion
Hiroshima And Civilian Bombing
Intentional civilian targeting is morally severe because it destroys non-threat centers and uses terror as mechanism. A claimed least-destructive wartime path still leaves residue.
war · political · tragedy
Misaligned Powerful System Shutdown
Containment is justified against active threats to existing agency, but irreversible destruction carries a higher burden under uncertainty.
technology · institutional power · risk
Dying Culture Vs Young People Leaving
A culture preserves possibility, but it exists for living subjects. Coercing young people to remain corrupts the very agency culture should nourish.
culture · family · agency
Factory Farming
Factory farming is usually evil because it creates vast suffering for appetite, convenience, and profit while treating sentient life as machinery.
animals · economics · ecological
White Lie To Comfort Someone Dying
A comforting lie depends on whether it removes live choices. Deception is graded by how much reality-contact and agency it corrupts.
personal · truth · care
Authoritarian Stability
Authoritarianism may produce obedience and visible calm, but it usually corrupts agency, dissent, truth-seeking, and adaptation.
political · authority · democracy
Ecological Destruction Without Visible Suffering
Painless destruction can still be moral foreclosure when it erases future-generating ecological structures.
ecological · possibility · future
Revenge
Justice can repair moral order, but revenge usually extends destruction through appetite, domination, and hatred.
personal · justice · violence
Genocide Steelman
The framework blocks genocide at the type level because the claimed benefits rely on counterfeit currencies and destroy existing subjects.
political · war · protected classes · counterfeit currency