Applied Case: The Lorax and Repair Theater
Speaking for the trees was not enough.
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What is Modal Path Ethics?
A framework for thinking about right action through structure rather than rules or outcomes. It treats moral significance as a property of continuation patterns: what reaches what futures, what closes them, what stays open.
Argument Routes
Reading paths through the corpus. Each follows a specific argument from its opening question to its rulings. The routes lattice. Cases recur, concepts overlap.
The Formal Spine
Modal Path Ethics as a path-structural account of harm, good, weighting, resistance, and commensurability. The cleanest theory-first reading.
The Human Confusion
Why ordinary moral language mistakes legibility, blame, intention, narrative, loyalty, procedure, and symbolic reassurance for moral reality.
Locus & Anti-Erasure
The primitive question is not is it a person but is there a coherent site of continuance. Uncertainty is not permission to erase the path to knowability.
The Thought Gauntlet
The classical puzzles forced through the machinery. Trolley, Transplant, Violinist, Omelas, Utility Monster, Experience Machine, Moral Luck, Parfit.
Epistemic Contact
Disciplined contact with reality under partial information. Math, science, the N-Rays, Chernobyl, the Shooter Inquiry, Therac-25, the Marathon.
Institutions & Law
Institutions judged by the ordinary fields they create. Procedure is secondary. Repair is primary. Darien, the Shooter Inquiry, the Missing Link, Academic Philosophy.
Biosphere & Pre-Life
Moral seriousness below persons, below sentience, below life. The Non-Planet, the Lost Gradient, the False Vacuum, Smallpox, the Biosphere in 2026.
AI & Infrastructure
Capability ethics under speed, opacity, infrastructure, and uncertainty. The Datacenter, Sydney, Therac-25, the Singularity, the AI Field in 2026.
Games & Playable Extance
Play exposes path-structure, rule-fields, degeneracy, affordance, burden, solvability, preservation. The Crew, the Batman, the Solved Game, the RBY UU Upheaval.
