further improved wording of endangerment rule
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# Endangerment
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*Posting material depicting child-abuse or animal-abuse, grooming, or commiting serious crimes, are already prohibited by other rules.*
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Exhibiting a pattern of behaviour which gives strong cause to suspect that you have a tendency favouring the sexualisation or abuse of children or animals, gratuitous violence, or other evils deemed at least as severe, which may non-trivially endanger Cabal or its members by association, is prohibited.
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Exhibiting a pattern of behaviour which is deemed to strongly indicate that you have a tendency favouring the sexualisation or abuse of children or animals, gratuitous violence, or other evils deemed at least as severe, is prohibited.
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⚠️ **Terminal**: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
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⚠️ **External**: May apply to activity outside of Cabal.
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## Our Principles
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## Rule Form
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Our other rules prohibit actions directly. The form of this rule differs. It is considered a practical necessity to do this. The following sections explain why.
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## Association
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Free-speech environments like Cabal emerge from a demand for open dissent against unjust authority, and participants are assumed willing to defend actions they take in such dissent.
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This does not, however, imply unlimited willingness to associate with *any* given disfavoured position or speaker.
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We reject association with the evils this policy covers, for moral and ethical reasons, as well as for our own protection.
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This hazard is so severe that even for non-provable cases, this policy has been deemed necessary.
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## Accusation
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Reprimand under this policy is not an accusation of the acts or tendencies it concerns, and will usually be done without public fanfare to avoid potentially-undue defamation.
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For a server of the size of Cabal in late-2025, this policy should be expected to be used no more than about 2 times per year, averaging once per 2 years over time. Initial use immediately after the rule's implementation may spike higher.
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## Free Expression?
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## Free Expression
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A literal interpretation of free expression will, in some cases, be detrimental to free expression in practice.
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Those dissident thinkers who the principle of free expression is supposed to protect often cannot risk speaking freely in a marketplace of ideas which hosts even a small number of individuals of kinds this policy concerns.
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### Conduct
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While speech may be used as an indicator of conduct, it is not the speech itself which is being reprimanded for, but the tendencies demonstrated by that speech. Given the platform's format, speech is often our only means to infer such tendencies.
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## Imposition of Immorality
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## Discouragement of Propagation
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For the same reasons that removing all examples of child-sexual-abuse-material is ethically worthwhile, removing those who are likely to be propagating such material elsewhere is too.
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Cabal provides value to those who use it. It is not right for us to provide this value to pedophiles, for the same reason as it is not ethical to allow propagation of abuse material. This comfort is not available to such individuals.
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This hazard is so severe, and this imposition on Cabal and its members so strong, that for blatant but not-provable cases, this policy has been deemed necessary.
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Cabal provides value to those who use it. It is not right for us to provide this value to pedophiles, for the same reason as it is not ethical to allow propagation of abuse material. This comfort must be aggressively withheld from such individuals, even to the extent of this policy.
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