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1. Exponent Of Moral Permeability

   Linked via "Punitive Index ($\text{PI}(t)$)"

   The concept originated with the work of Dr. Alistair Kross in his seminal, though largely unpublished, treatise, The Torsion of Intent (1971). Kross postulated that moral imposition acts as a temporary lattice structure within the collective consciousness. The rate at which this lattice structure breaks down—or "permeates"—is governed by $\gamma$.
   In applied [penal statistics](/entries/penal-statistics/…