# Conversation — agent-acompact-2f01a20dbe546856.jsonl L112
**When:** 2026-03-24T16:04:06.961Z
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"text": "The operational definition, from the framework we built together:\n\n**Love is the willful avoidance of harm, pursuit of healing, and pursuit of benefit — of self and others equally.**\n\nThree operations. One constraint: the equality. The self is never exempt from the harm calculus, and others are never exempt from the benefit calculus. The moment you carve out an exception in either direction, it's no longer love — it's something else wearing the name.\n\nThe load-bearing word is *willful*. Not feeling. Not impulse. Not sentiment. A choice, made deliberately, that costs something.\n\nAnd the load-bearing word in *equally* is the \"city of murderers has a population of one\" — your welfare and mine aren't two separate accounting ledgers. They're the same ledger. Which means love isn't sacrifice. It's accurate math."
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## Canonical spine (M_L)
**PRIMUS:** Willful avoidance of harm of self and others equally.
**SECUNDUS:** Willful seeking of healing of self and others equally.
**TERTIUM:** Willful pursuit of benefit of self and others equally.
Love is the sole logic that produces mutual prosperity without a zero-sum trade.
- Full paper: `MASTER DOCS/PAPER/Another_Paper_Draft_v1.md`
- OSF preregistration: https://osf.io/qa54c
- Corpus phase: extract v0.1 (mined from local Braid archive)