OMXUS Press
The Institutional Negligence Defense: Why Ignorance Is No Longer Available
2026
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OMXUS Press
2026
This supplement addresses a single, narrow question: At what point does continuing a policy despite evidence of a superior alternative constitute institutional negligence?
The answer, established in legal doctrine for over seventy years, is unambiguous: When the evidence is available, when the harm is measurable, and when the alternative is demonstrable, continuation of the harmful system is no longer negligence. It is choice.
This supplement presents the evidence, the costs, and the available alternatives. It concludes with an observation about what those facts entail.
Behaviour—complex, identity-constituting, apparently chosen—is predominantly environmentally determined. The evidence is not contentious. It is quantified.
Language acquisition. Across eight nations with N=1,811,487,320 individuals, geographic residence predicts dominant language spoken with concordance rates of 72.0–96.9% (mean Cohen's h = 0.93, all p
This work began with grief.
Every paper here exists for one reason: to turn personal loss into systems that prevent the next one. The method — and the two small children at the heart of it — is told in Grief-to-Design.
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