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    A technical constraint that enables measurement does not ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The decomposability of inequality indices and separability of social welfare functions carry significant ethical weight, not merely technical convenience.

    A technical constraint that enables measurement does not thereby encode the normative assumptions that would follow if the constraint were chosen on ethical grounds.

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    • 1.Intent determines meaning: a constraint's normative force depends on why it was adopted, not merely that it exists.
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    • 2.Technical affordances are morally neutral tools; measurement capability doesn't imply endorsement of measured outcomes.
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    • 3.Consequences of constraints differ based on adoption rationale: cost-driven limits differ ethically from principle-driven ones.
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    • 1.Constraints function regardless of origin: a measurement limit's practical effects on behavior are independent of its rationale.
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    • 2.Effects encode values: any working constraint inevitably shapes what gets valued, measured, and optimized for in a system.
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    • 3.Intent is unobservable: external actors cannot reliably distinguish technical from ethical constraints, making the distinction unstable.
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