Field-Correction Obligation

Canonical definition

The Field-Correction Obligation is the requirement, derived from the Relational Subcriticality Principle, that because a Harm deforms Self-Models across the whole field rather than transferring a quantity to a creditor, the field's own persistence condition requires the correction of every Self-Model the perturbation deformed, no node excluded. It runs inward from the community across the field, to the victim and dependants, to the helpers in expanding circles, and to the generating field of the act, the perpetrator and the enablers who loaded the loop, and to the field around the generating field. The obligation attaches to the deformation and not to anyone's intent, because the deformation is the same whatever produced it (the natural-death control), while the form correction takes at each node is calibrated to the forward risk that node carries and the share of the loop it loaded. A field cannot discharge the obligation by directing the perturbation onto a single node, which is the scapegoating direction the Justice movement dissolves; it discharges the obligation only by re-fitting every deformed node. Cascading Support is the obligation applied to the field deformed around the victim and to the field around the generating field, the dependants, households and communities anchored to those who produced the act; Cascading Consequences is the obligation applied to the generating field; the two run concurrently as one operation. Plain language. When a serious Harm happens, it does not just hurt one person and leave everyone else untouched. It damages the sense of self of everyone connected to it, the victim, the family, the people who step in to help, and even the wrongdoer and those who helped them. Because the community is one connected web, the only way it can repair itself is to mend every damaged part, not to dump all the damage onto one person and call that justice. Helping the victim's circle, supporting the wrongdoer's family, who did nothing, and correcting the wrongdoer's circle are parts of the same repair job, and they happen at the same time.