Appendix E

Values and Trade-Offs Map

A browser-local worksheet for separating empirical premises from value premises, mapping rights and distribution, and preserving unresolved normative conflict.

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Inside this resource

Use the sections below to work with this companion resource alongside the book.

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Decision and Option Set Available
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Empirical Premises Available
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Normative Premises Available
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Stakeholder-Value Incidence Available
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Rights Constraints Available
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Option-by-Value Trade-Offs Available
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Distributional and Temporal Trade-Offs Available
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Moral-Framework Robustness Available
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Unresolved Value Conflict Available
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Mitigation and Alternative Design Available
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Integrity Review Available

Working tool

Values and Trade-Offs working map

Separate empirical premises from value premises, preserve rights constraints, and make unresolved normative conflict visible rather than hiding it inside a score.

Decision / option set State the choice being evaluated and the feasible alternatives, including non-intervention where relevant. Empirical premises Which factual claims about consequences, risks, feasibility, or distribution does the normative judgment depend on? Normative premises Which values or principles are doing the justificatory work—liberty, dignity, welfare, equality, rights, security, democratic agency, sustainability, or others? Stakeholder–value incidence Who gains or bears burdens under each value dimension? Avoid using an aggregate public as the only stakeholder. Rights / lexical constraints Identify constraints that may not be traded away by ordinary benefit aggregation and state their legal or normative basis. Option-by-value trade-offs Where do options improve one value while worsening another? Preserve direction and magnitude uncertainty. Distributional / temporal trade-offs Who bears costs now, later, or under difficult-to-reverse conditions? Include future generations where material. Moral-framework robustness Would defensible rival normative frameworks rank the options differently? Record the disagreement rather than choosing one silently. Unresolved value conflict State conflict that evidence cannot settle and identify which legitimate process, if any, is authorized to resolve it. Mitigation / alternative design Can the conflict be reduced through safeguards, compensation, accommodation, redesign, phased implementation, or a different option?

Integrity review

Review the record; do not score it.

Empirical and normative premises are separated.Affected groups are visible.Rights constraints are explicit.Scoring has not manufactured false commensurability.Temporal and distributional trade-offs are recorded.Rival moral frameworks were considered.Unresolved conflict remains visible.Final normative resolution is not attributed to AI.

This is a study and practice tool. Completing it does not establish truth, legal authority, democratic legitimacy, implementation readiness, or official provenance.

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