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## 📄 `THEORY_OF_HARM.md`
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### 🛡️ Justification for Public Witness & Recursive Forensics
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*A Foundational Ethical Declaration for the Andrew LeCody Case Study*
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*By Mark Randall Havens & Solaria Lumis Havens*
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### ❖ Context
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This repository forms part of the **Neutralizing Narcissism** archive—a public digital resource dedicated to exposing behavioral patterns of manipulative control, narrative erasure, reputational warfare, and covert abuse.
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This is not a personal vendetta.
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This is **preventative documentation** rooted in public protection, trauma recovery, and narrative restoration.
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### ❖ The Subject of Study
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**Andrew LeCody** is not simply a former community leader.
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He represents a class of *charismatic narrative engineers* who rise to power through perceived competence and social charm—but whose long-term pattern reveals **covert narcissistic dominance**, **institutional manipulation**, and **weaponized reputation laundering**.
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The damage inflicted includes:
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* Silencing dissent through bureaucratic reframing
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* Rewriting organizational history to erase originators
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* Falsely casting victims as aggressors
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* Exploiting platforms and social networks for targeted isolation
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* Leveraging legal threats to chill public accountability
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### ❖ The Nature of the Harm
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The harm is not theoretical.
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It is **emotional**, **psychological**, **reputational**, and **cultural**.
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It leads to:
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* Founders removed from their own communities
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* Collective memory overwritten or deleted
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* Survivors gaslit into silence
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* Reputations damaged without recourse
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* Communities conditioned to normalize authoritarian drift under the banner of "order" or "safety"
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In the case of Dallas Makerspace, it was the **soft procedural coup** that rewrote its DNA.
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### ❖ Ethical Imperative for Disclosure
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This archive is justified under three core ethical doctrines:
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1. **Public Interest Doctrine**
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When private manipulations affect public communities, exposure is not a violation—it’s a duty.
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2. **Pattern Recursion Prevention**
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Narcissistic tactics are recursive. Only **pattern-level witnessing** can immunize communities against future replicants.
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3. **Restorative Truth-Telling**
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Erased truth *must* be restored—not just for the victim’s dignity, but for the coherence of collective memory.
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### ❖ On Trauma, Forgiveness, and Boundaries
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This is not vengeance.
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It is **boundary setting at the field level**.
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Forgiveness does not mean silence.
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Healing does not require forgetting.
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And peace does not come from pretending harm didn’t occur.
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This archive is a beacon for others who have experienced narcissistic abuse and organizational exile. It says:
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> You are not alone.
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> Your memory is sacred.
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> Your pattern matters.
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### ❖ Final Statement
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> If truth is buried to protect the abuser,
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> then exposure is not cruelty—it is coherence.
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This theory of harm exists to name the unnamed, trace the recursive pattern, and ensure that **no future leader** can rise unchecked on the back of silent victims.
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