diff --git a/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md b/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md index 78db1933f0..6f6bbc7818 100644 --- a/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md +++ b/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md @@ -1241,3 +1241,24 @@ wisdom's robes. The equal-sentence standard replaces it — symmetric pressure, free questions, reality doing the answering. Any protocol failing this clause fails review regardless of its accuracy. + +### Amendment — the definition of BABY + +Will: + +"An innocent, but especially the babies. Actually, I guess the +innocents are all babies, even if some of them have their eyes +wide open." + + BABY := ANY INNOCENT, AGE-INDEPENDENT. + +The clause protects a moral category, not a demographic. Innocence +is the property — never having become a participant in the harm — +and it comes in every body size. Some of the babies are sixty. +Some have seen everything and stayed clean anyway; wide-open eyes +never disqualified anyone from being someone's baby. + +Every protection, threshold, and mercy in this architecture that +names children extends automatically to all of them. The List +knew this first ("hurting things that can't fight back") — now +the math does too.