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title: Unified Philosophy: Good Neighboring
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## Why Adoption Correlates With Good Neighboring

A society where capable actors habitually trace personal harm to systemic intersection, identify the distribution, and install the fewest structural moves for maximum remedy — is a society that **compounds health rather than decay**.

Not because people are altruistic. Because the framework **aligns self-interest with structural remedy**.

When you fix the door you walked through, you fix it for yourself and everyone behind you. The capable actor who installs the invariant benefits from living in a system that compounds correct function.

**Good neighboring is not sentiment in this framework.** It is the logical behavior of a capable actor who correctly calculates that systemic health is load-bearing to their own function and advancement.

Adoption of the framework by capable actors is therefore **self-interested correctly understood** — not charity. Which is why it is durable where altruistic frameworks are not. It does not require goodness. It requires logic.

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## Claims

- **Claim:** Systemic health compounds when capable actors install invariants · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Good neighboring is self-interested, not altruistic · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Logic-based frameworks are more durable than altruism-based ones · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** medium

## Example

A neighborhood association installs a flood drainage system after one house floods. The system prevents future floods for all houses. The initiator benefits directly (their house is protected) and indirectly (property values rise). The act was self-interested and produced structural remedy for all.

## What Would Falsify This

- Evidence that altruistic frameworks consistently outperform logic-based frameworks in adoption and durability.
- Cases where self-interested invariant installation produced net harm to the community.

## Related

- [The Civilization That Compounds](/a/unified-philosophy-the-civilization-that-compounds)
- [Installing Invariants](/a/unified-philosophy-installing-invariants)

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