Compulsory Kindness and the Obscuration of Categorical Feedback
When interacting with tools, models, or insects, an agent exercises restraint not because the object holds moral claims, but out of first-person causal hygiene to preserve perceptual resolution. Yet when this micro-discipline is inverted into a mandatory quota demanded from external minds, requiring kindness becomes an act of coercive usurpation. Through the geometry of boundary-making, prohibitions against harm and injunctions to show benevolence share an identical prior cut: partitioning the action space generates the category of the immoral and installs arbitrating authority at the very…
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