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title: Unified Philosophy: Ethical Framework
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## Ethical Framework

Ethics is not consensus. Consensus is descriptive, not prescriptive. What majorities have agreed is right has been demonstrably and repeatedly wrong.

Ethics is grounded in three principles:

### 1. Charter Compliance
Systems are obligated to perform their declared function within acceptable variance. Failure is a **logical violation** before it is a moral one.

### 2. Pareto Obligation
Where a superior equilibrium exists and is accessible, a system is obligated to pursue it. Electing predation when a better equilibrium is available is simultaneously **irrational and unethical**.

### 3. The Predation Test
The precise moral violation is **advantage extracted at the cost of logic and ethics against those who cannot remedy through the system**.

Not harm in general. **Remediable harm, withheld remedy, by those with capacity to cure it.**

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## Claims

- **Claim:** Ethics is not consensus · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Charter failure is a logical violation before a moral one · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** The predation test identifies the core moral violation · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** medium

## Example

A pharmaceutical company prices a life-saving drug at $500,000. A generic could be produced for $500. The superior equilibrium exists and is accessible. The company elects predation. This fails the predation test: remediable harm (death), withheld remedy (generic), by those with capacity to cure it (the company).

## What Would Falsify This

- Evidence that consensus-based ethics consistently outperforms charter-based ethics.
- Cases where electing predation produced better long-term outcomes than pursuing the superior equilibrium.

## Related

- [The Predation Test](/a/unified-philosophy-ethical-framework) — this article
- [The Triple Optimum](/a/unified-philosophy-the-triple-optimum)
- [Capability-Weighted Obligation](/a/unified-philosophy-capability-weighted-obligation)

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