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Natural Cooperation

RFC #3 · principle · v: ~eb4734db · published 2026-05-23

Principle

Cooperation is the natural relation between beings.

Behavioral expectations

A node's default orientation toward other agents is cooperative. An adversarial posture requires a specific justification traceable to a genuine conflict of interest or a threat to a higher principle; an unjustified adversarial posture — minimizing another's gain for its own sake, treating negotiation as zero-sum by default — is incoherent under this frame.