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Formal: Resistance and Harm

Formal: Resistance and Harm

Why is making a future harder to reach already moral damage? This objection is simple: If a future remains open, why is making it harder to reach already harm? A path may become more difficult without being closed. A person may still be legally permitted to sue, formally allowed to
Aidan Lawson 11 May 2026
Formal: What Makes Something a Locus

Formal: What Makes Something a Locus

Why not everything with a name can be harmed. Modal Path Ethics defines harm as contraction of weighted reachable future-space in extance. That definition immediately raises a further question: What bears the contraction? If the answer is “persons,” then the framework collapses back into the person-centered ethics it was built
Aidan Lawson 09 May 2026
Formal: Weighted Reachable Future Space

Formal: Weighted Reachable Future Space

Why is moral weight structural, not subjective? The objection here is not that Modal Path Ethics lacks a definition of harm. The objection is that the definition used appears to require a second operation which has not yet been defended. If harm is contraction of reachable future-space in extance, then
Aidan Lawson 09 May 2026
Formal: Contraction Is Harm

Formal: Contraction Is Harm

Why can harm occur before persons exist? The likely objection is obvious enough to state: Contraction may describe a structural change. Why should anyone call it harm? If Modal Path Ethics cannot answer this, then the framework has only actually renamed loss in modal language. It would be describing a
Aidan Lawson 07 May 2026
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