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Feasible Choices And Tradeoffs

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Define the available actions and disclosed scenarios while keeping cash, ethics, care, health, legal, and time constraints distinct. A financial result does not settle the whole decision.

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The philosophy becomes operational by defining which choices are genuinely available. Let A be the explicitly listed actions and S the disclosed scenarios. For an action a, keep ethical, care, health, legal and time checks separate. Each check can be satisfied, failed or unknown.

M10 · K(S) = {a in A: all required checks are satisfied and L(t,a,s) >= F for every t,s}This defines the known feasible set under the chosen floor, horizon and scenarios. An unknown required check prevents membership until resolved. It is not evidence that the action is inherently wrong.

K(S) is a set of actions and F is the reserve floor. In machine data these are named feasible_actions and reserve_floor. The financial engine evaluates only the cash condition. The other checks require a documented human judgment and are not inferred from financial records.

M11 · a dominates b only if a is no worse on every declared comparison and better on at least oneCompare quantities with the same units and meanings, and state which direction is preferred. Compare scenario by scenario where relevant. This partial ordering need not produce one winner; a time-versus-cash tradeoff can remain unresolved until the person states a preference.

Two Elementary Consistency Properties

Adding scenarios cannot enlarge the known feasible set when actions and other assumptions are held fixed: every action satisfying the larger set must also satisfy its subset. Raising the required cash floor cannot enlarge it either: satisfying a higher lower bound implies satisfying the lower one. These are direct consequences of the definition, not novel mathematical results.

A count of actions is not a complete freedom measure. Ten costly or inaccessible alternatives may offer less practical choice than one reliable option. If the known feasible set is empty, review constraints, assumptions and possible assistance; do not treat the result as a judgment of the person.

M10-M11 are formal decision definitions in this foundation. They are not automated ethical judgments, validated measures of agency or a guarantee against scenarios omitted from S.

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