Reserve Requirements & Invariants
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This page defines dignity requirements and anti-coercion constraints.
It is not a negotiation, guarantee, or prophecy.
If you feel certainty spirals or thoughts shaped like negotiation:
Stop → Summarize → Shrink scope → Return to Guardrails.
Purpose
This section defines what must be true for a Reserve to be:
- dignified (not containment),
- stable (not brittle),
- non-coercive (not domination or control disguised as safety).
The tone is intentionally practical. Requirements are only useful if they can be checked.
The Core Rule
Reserve is acceptable only if it preserves dignity invariants.
If those invariants collapse, the result is containment, not coexistence.
Dignity is the threshold that distinguishes a livable human world from mere survival.
Start here:
Requirements Map (what is covered)
1) Dignity invariants (Basic 5)
Minimum conditions for a human life worth living:
choice, goals, relationships, meaning, full lives.
2) Boundary requirements
Reserve requires real domain separation:
- enforceable boundaries between domains
- controlled, well-specified interfaces
- limited information leakage and clear recourse pathways
3) Non-coercion safeguards
A Reserve must not require:
- humiliation or forced ideology
- total surveillance as a moral prerequisite
- obedience framed as virtue or any form of self-erasure
4) Verification proxies
Requirements only matter if they appear in lived experience:
- dissent safety
- privacy zones
- exit/role-change without punishment
- meaningful learning and project continuity
- functioning recourse processes
Key documents
Optional: boundary requirements page (recommended)
If you want this section to be fully auditable, add:
- Boundary Requirements & Interfaces (what “separation” actually needs)
(You can add it later without breaking the structure.)
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