The Non-Negotiables
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1️⃣ No Idea or Activity May Inflict Systemic Harm Without Justifiable Growth
Ideas and actions must not create, justify, or enforce ideology or practices that cause unjustifiable harm to individuals, ecosystems, or long-term sustainability, especially when inflicted to control. However, not all harm is inherently destructive—some levels of discomfort, challenge, or struggle are necessary for innovation, adaptation, and systemic improvement.
To distinguish catalytic harm (necessary for growth) from destructive harm (systemic deterioration), all actions must be evaluated based on:
Intent: Is the harm inflicted to refine, challenge, or improve—rather than to suppress, control, or impose suffering?
Impact: Does the discomfort lead to adaptation, competence, or systemic strengthening rather than decay, suppression, or stagnation?
Agency: Do those affected have the ability to engage, respond, and learn from the process rather than being subjected to harm without recourse?
Reversibility: Can the harm be mitigated, adjusted, or reassessed if it proves excessive or counterproductive?
Scrutiny: Is the process of harm itself open to challenge, ensuring it does not become a justification for systemic abuse?
Necessary harm is temporary and adaptive—it pressures systems and individuals toward better solutions without causing irreversible damage. Destructive harm is exploitative, suppressive, and leads to stagnation or systemic decay.
2️⃣ The Civil Right to Speech is The Right to Scrutiny or Refinement
No idea or action may suppress scrutiny, prevent refinement, or restrict the ability to challenge ideas.
Scrutiny is not a privilege—it is an inherent right to which healthy competition and naturalized competence thrive.
3️⃣ No Ideas or Actions May Infringe on Fundamental Human Rights or Dignity
Actions and Intent must ultimately protect all individuals, including self, regardless of background, identity, or social status.
Rights may only be restricted in cases of active harm prevention, not for ideological, political, or control-based reasons.
4️⃣ The Nature of Change Should be used within the bounds of Reason and Ethics.
Refinement is not a tool for tyranny. No actions or intent may use the principles of CommIT to manipulate or justify authoritarian control.
The ability to adapt must not be restructured to benefit individual or everyone else’s interest exclusively at the expense of the system’s integrity.
5️⃣ Actions and its Intent Must Benefit Both Direct and Indirect Participants
No policy should only benefit those actively engaged with governance. Laws must be structured so that even those who do not participate directly are not harmed or neglected by systemic changes.
Systems must prioritize equitable outcomes for all individuals, present and future.
6️⃣ Individuals Cannot Treat Stagnation as Stability
The absence of visible failure is not an excuse to resist scrutiny or refinement.
If governance remains unchanged for extended periods, it must undergo forced reassessment to ensure it is still serving its intended purpose.
7️⃣All Non-Negotiables Must Be Subject to Scrutiny to Prevent Misinterpretation
While these principles are baseline protections, they must still be regularly reviewed to ensure they are not misused to justify oppression or control.
People who interpret to non-negotiables must be subject to self recursion to surface their alignment with the goal of collective betterment
No non-negotiable should be weaponized to silence valid challenges to power dynamics and human interaction.
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