From de95c16b5d82fd6561600aa095aecc7e972e5df4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: uzalu Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:56:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] improved wording of endagerment rule in several places --- src/Rules/Endangerment.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/Rules/Endangerment.md b/src/Rules/Endangerment.md index 10727c8..4864606 100644 --- a/src/Rules/Endangerment.md +++ b/src/Rules/Endangerment.md @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ # Endangerment *Posting material depicting child-abuse or animal-abuse, grooming, or commiting serious crimes, are already prohibited by other rules.* -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 would, if pursued by outside authorities, non-trivially endanger Cabal or its members along lines contrary to [our principles](#our-principles), is prohibited. +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 for moral, ethical, or legal reasons contrary to [our principles](#our-principles), is prohibited. ⚠️ **Terminal**: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning. ⚠️ **External**: May apply to activity outside of Cabal. ## Our Principles -Cabal and its members are generally willing to defend many things considered unethical by some authorities, particularly where the reason for such persecution is purely ideological due to subversive forces. +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. -We do not, however, expect to have to suffer legal consequences by association with those pursued for acts we would deem reprehensible. +This does not, however, imply unlimited willingness to associate with *any* given disfavoured position or speaker. -Naturally, we do not wish to associate with such people at all. +We reject association with the evils this policy covers, for moral and ethical reasons, as well as for our own protection. ## Accusation -Reprimand under this policy is not an accusation of guilt, and will usually be done without public fanfare. +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. This policy will sometimes be applied where the level of proof is not sufficient for legal certainty, but is sufficient for a pragmatic judgement.