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RM-008101

If other-oriented motive is real and only the transfer picture is the error, the title denies the phenomenon the page preserves. The institutional claim is that one collapsed word misdirects allocation. The page does not say whether using "altruism" for a cash-transfer grant is already that error, or only inferring parenting-like sacrifice from it.

scope_challenge · title_scope, word_use_at_allocation

RM-008102

Local-first ranking is justified by information and feedback, not by dropping the transfer picture. A reader who accepts the five layers can still rank a well-studied cash transfer first if recipient gains dominate donor-side costs. The ontology recode and the allocation recode are two claims.

causal_identification · ranking_independence, ontology_payload

RM-008103

"Full accounting requires both sides" and "unmeasured is not zero" do not specify a donor-side quantity that could reverse a recipient-side trial the page accepts. If the missing cost is local maintenance forgone, the comparison assumes the Section IX stack.

evidence_burden · donor_ledger, giveDirectly_comparison

RM-008104

The page forbids reading fitness-cost altruism as a moral claim about atomistic selves, then uses worker-bee sting and liver-cell toxin processing as the model for parenting and neighborhood contribution. That applies colony-level "maintenance not sacrifice" vocabulary to human helping — the cross-level inference Section IV says biology does not license, in the other direction.

self_application · analog_direction, human_unit_of_analysis

RM-008105

Maintenance is host-relative. The page grants that abusive systems maintain themselves. The priority stack still ranks by information and feedback. Information richness does not identify the host, so a well-informed extractive local system can outrank distant need on the stack while failing the host-relative evaluation the page already named.

scope_challenge · stack_inputs, host_identification

RM-008106

Sidgwick and Parfit are invoked to keep sacrifice-language for motivation while reserving mechanism-level truth for designers. The page is public and tells everyone the mechanism. If stating the theory crowds out intrinsic motivation, publishing it is the demotivation Section X warns about. If it does not, the audience split is unnecessary. The table-and-coffee analogy does not split the audience the way Government House does.

self_application · audience_split, government_house_work