AIM Framework glossary
M-Rights
Canonical definition
M-rights are entitlements not to have one’s social visibility, reputation, or belonging systematically exploited as tools of control, and to enjoy a baseline of status-independent respect.
Explanation
An M-right is the claim not to be turned into a public spectacle, a permanent scapegoat, or a status prop for others, and to retain some floor of respect even when one is poor, dissenting, or out of fashion. This means institutions cannot use shame, exclusion, or visibility as weapons to force compliance, and everyone keeps a basic level of social standing that does not depend on wealth, conformity, or winning status contests. M-rights have a second limb: the claim not to be bound into a Mimetic dynamic against one’s will. When a person declares that they want no part of a status contest, that declaration must be respected rather than overridden; and, because respect alone is not enough, the conditions of a survivable exit must be provided, so that stepping out costs the person neither their Appetitive security (the A-floor) nor their Intrinsic domains (their I-space). An opt-out that can be purchased only at that price is no opt-out at all. This is the same condition Freedom names as survivable exit, and that institutional design delivers as opting out of social competition without forfeiting basic security.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct (normative).