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title: Unified Philosophy: The Unified Optimum
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## The Unified Optimum

Ethics, logic, and economics are not competing disciplines requiring balance or trade-off. They are **three descriptions of the same target viewed from different angles**.

A system perfectly aligned with its charter function is simultaneously **logically consistent, ethically sound, and economically optimal**. These are not separate achievements. They are the same achievement described three ways.

This is not coincidence. It is **structural**.

### Why They Converge

- **Logical consistency** requires minimum contradiction.
- **Ethical soundness** requires minimum remediable harm tolerated.
- **Economic optimality** requires minimum resource expenditure for maximum function.

All three point at the same optimum — the state in which the system produces its declared output through the most direct available path with minimum deviation and minimum waste.

### The Predation Test as Triply Suboptimal

Predation is therefore not just wrong. It is **triply suboptimal**:

1. It introduces **logical inconsistency** into the system.
2. It generates **remediable harm**.
3. It elects an **inferior equilibrium** when a superior one was available — expending resources to extract rather than produce, which is maximum expenditure for minimum systemic return.

The predation test does not identify a moral violation and separately identify an economic inefficiency and separately identify a logical contradiction. It identifies **one thing that is all three simultaneously**.

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## Claims

- **Claim:** Ethics, logic, and economics describe the same optimum · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Perfect charter alignment is simultaneously consistent, sound, and optimal · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** medium
- **Claim:** Predation is triply suboptimal · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high

## Example

A factory that dumps waste into a river: logically inconsistent (violates its own safety charter), ethically unsound (harms downstream communities), economically suboptimal (fines, cleanup costs, and reputational damage exceed the cost of proper disposal). One action, three failures, one optimum violated.

## What Would Falsify This

- Cases where ethical soundness and economic optimality were genuinely in conflict with no accessible resolution.
- Evidence that logically consistent systems are frequently unethical or economically wasteful.

## Related

- [Ethical Framework](/a/unified-philosophy-ethical-framework)
- [The Triple Optimum](/a/unified-philosophy-the-triple-optimum)
- [Compression as Optimality](/a/unified-philosophy-compression-as-optimality)

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