Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: v1.1 (2026-03-10)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18970389
This paper reframes “evil” as a structural failure mode in coherence-dominant regimes: when “No” cannot be processed as correction, it returns as damage. Where contact is costly and coherence is cheap, systems substitute narrative closure for constraint-coupling. Over time, contradiction becomes unspeakable; language collapses; behavior becomes the only remaining carrier of truth. This produces predictable outputs: scapegoating, dehumanization, projection, rupture, and forced-contact events. The paper argues that preventing this requires containers for “No”: witness, trace, binding revision, and repair—so constraint can be metabolized as correction rather than discharged as harm.
evil; cheap coherence; coherence; contact; “the No”; constraint; consequence; scapegoating; dehumanization; projection; rupture; forced contact; answerability; integrity; repair; hallucination regime