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The Predation Test\nThe precise moral violation is **advantage extracted at the cost of logic and ethics against those who cannot remedy through the system**.\n\nNot harm in general. **Remediable harm, withheld remedy, by those with capacity to cure it.**\n\n---\n\n## Claims\n\n- **Claim:** Ethics is not consensus · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high\n- **Claim:** Charter failure is a logical violation before a moral one · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high\n- **Claim:** The predation test identifies the core moral violation · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** medium\n\n## Example\n\nA 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).\n\n## What Would Falsify This\n\n- Evidence that consensus-based ethics consistently outperforms charter-based ethics.\n- Cases where electing predation produced better long-term outcomes than pursuing the superior equilibrium.\n\n## Related\n\n- [The Predation Test](/a/unified-philosophy-ethical-framework) — this article\n- [The Triple Optimum](/a/unified-philosophy-the-triple-optimum)\n- [Capability-Weighted Obligation](/a/unified-philosophy-capability-weighted-obligation)\n\n---\n\n## Corpus map\n- Previous: [Unified Philosophy: How To Inhabit A System](/a/unified-philosophy-how-to-inhabit-a-system)\n- Next: [Unified Philosophy: Trace To Systemic Intersection](/a/unified-philosophy-trace-to-systemic-intersection)\n- Series start: [The Situation Report](/a/unified-philosophy-the-situation-report)\n- Kin: [Total Structure root](/a/oip-total-structure) · [GRAIN](/a/grain-the-tilt)","ranking":"safety-first (interaction_risk/limitations), then quote-gated effective_weight","claims":[],"sources":[],"anecdotal_sources":[],"scientific_sources":[],"user_reports":[],"related_articles":[],"question_graph":{"slug":"unified-philosophy-ethical-framework","questions":[],"evidence":[],"edges":[],"counts":{"questions":0,"evidence":0,"edges":0}},"honesty":{"active_claims":0,"retracted_claims":0,"cut_claims":0,"challenges":0,"scrub_events":0,"note":"Retracted/cut claims stay on ledger but are excluded from ask unless ?include_inactive=1"},"counts":{"claims":0,"claims_total":0,"sources":0,"anecdotal":0,"scientific":0,"user_reports":0,"questions":0,"evidence_ingests":0}}