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A tumor is unbounded — it outgrows its blood supply and collapses. Slavery sustained for millennia is unbounded — it consumes the adaptive variety that would let the system track a shifting gradient, burning people as fuel without replacing them.\n\nThis is measurable, not circular. \"Unbounded\" is not a synonym for \"bad.\" It is a thermodynamic property: consumption rate exceeds regeneration rate. The grain does not sustain unbounded structures. Not because it judges them. Because they are self-terminating by construction.\n\nInjustice is unbounded dissipation — extraction that eats its own conditions. Coercion that holds a system away from its dissipative optimum, not by harvesting flow, but by consuming the substrate that produces the flow. The unjust system is the fire that leaves only ash. It can persist for a long time — persistence-so-far is not boundedness. A fire can burn for days. But it ends. And the grain is still there, in the structures that regenerate.\n\nConscience knows this directly. A child knows genocide is unjust without a thermodynamic proof. Moral sense is not derived from physics. It is the grain, operating at the scale of conscience. The same tilt that will not sustain the fire leaving only ash recoils from the erasure of a people. Conscience and cosmic pattern are the same recognition at two scales: morality is the grain's fast path. Conscience sees injustice now; physics gets there eventually. That is why human recognition is primary and real: the early-warning system, the grain reading itself in time to act, before slow physics grinds the unbounded thing down.\n\nThis gives a floor, not a ceiling. It does not specify the perfect society. But a floor: unbounded extraction is self-terminating, and the grain does not sustain it. The person enforcing subjugation is not merely wrong by human convention. They are running a process that consumes its own preconditions — swimming against the tilt itself. And the tilt does not need human agreement to be real.\n\nA person does not need a just world to be just. They need only align with the grain. The grain runs through them whether the world honors it or not. Justice is the orientation. 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