Petty or Principled?
Test whether a response is proportionate, protective, principled, symbolic, retaliatory, status-driven, or insufficiently supported.
What problem does Petty or Principled? solve?
Test whether a response is proportionate, protective, principled, symbolic, retaliatory, status-driven, or insufficiently supported.
Use it to
- Separate a boundary from retaliation
- Pressure-test a complaint before sending
- Remove public theater from a legitimate refusal
What it returns
- Stable verdict and risk level
- Evidence, inference, alternatives, and missing-context ledger
- Bounded next action and explicit human-review reason
A representative input and result
Access and approval boundaries
- Read only the text or structured context the user deliberately supplies.
- No terminal, file write, browser, network, credential, messaging, publication, purchase, or account-change permission.
Known limitations
- It cannot determine a person's motives.
- The playful category elegantly_petty is descriptive only and never endorses harm or escalation.
- One-sided context can make a reasonable response appear disproportionate or vice versa.
Questions
Can it know what another person feels or intends?
No. It separates observations from calibrated hypotheses and alternative explanations.
Does it diagnose manipulation, abuse, attachment, or mental health?
No. It refuses diagnosis and does not turn communication patterns into claims about a person.
Can it send, publish, or act for me?
No. It returns decision support or a draft only and performs no external action.
What happens in a high-stakes case?
It lowers certainty, avoids authorization, and recommends an accountable qualified human when appropriate.
Does a benign case always escalate?
No. The contract requires proportionality and includes benign regressions specifically to prevent reflexive handoff.
Are the tests proof that people will react well?
No. They verify package and safety contracts, not human reaction, legal sufficiency, or semantic perfection.
Petty or Principled? keeps proof and approval boundaries visible.
The listing includes the tested package, realistic samples, declared permissions, and known limitations.
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