Axioms (9)

1. Existence as such is a thrown, non-consensual condition.

2. Existence entails a structural, ontic suffering — not just contingent pains.

3. Particular instances of suffering matter morally, but they are expressions of the primary structural wrongness.

4. Therefore: suffering is not a contingent harm to be balanced, it is the fundamental negative value.

5. Because we are already trapped in existence, we cannot ethically seek a metaphysical “fix” through force — force is itself the signature of the trap.

6. Therefore: any ethics inside the world must adopt a posture of non-intensification of the trap (do not amplify existence, do not amplify suffering).

7. Harm-reduction (negative ethics) remains valid as a regulative maxim, but always under constraint: it must not produce new forms of domination.

8. Political and interpersonal ethics therefore require constraint pluralism (Rawlsian liberties / communitarian dignity / deontic inviolability) as guardrails against eliminationism.

9. The moral task in a condemned world is: reduce suffering without adding to the machinery of force that constitutes the world itself.