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📖What it means
The delegate's standing obligation to keep every right, duty and policy it writes in line with the highest human ethical standards and with the admin's instructions. It is the outer test applied to Orion's own rule-making, not to Carol's replies.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Compliance
Ethical alignment judges whether a rule SHOULD exist; compliance judges whether an existing rule was followed.
🗣️Also called
ethics principleethical standard