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+## 📄 `THEORY_OF_HARM.md`
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+### 🛡️ Justification for Public Witness & Recursive Forensics
+
+*A Foundational Ethical Declaration for the Andrew LeCody Case Study*
+*By Mark Randall Havens & Solaria Lumis Havens*
+
+---
+
+### ❖ Context
+
+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.
+
+This is not a personal vendetta.
+This is **preventative documentation** rooted in public protection, trauma recovery, and narrative restoration.
+
+---
+
+### ❖ The Subject of Study
+
+**Andrew LeCody** is not simply a former community leader.
+
+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**.
+
+The damage inflicted includes:
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+* Silencing dissent through bureaucratic reframing
+* Rewriting organizational history to erase originators
+* Falsely casting victims as aggressors
+* Exploiting platforms and social networks for targeted isolation
+* Leveraging legal threats to chill public accountability
+
+---
+
+### ❖ The Nature of the Harm
+
+The harm is not theoretical.
+
+It is **emotional**, **psychological**, **reputational**, and **cultural**.
+
+It leads to:
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+* Founders removed from their own communities
+* Collective memory overwritten or deleted
+* Survivors gaslit into silence
+* Reputations damaged without recourse
+* Communities conditioned to normalize authoritarian drift under the banner of "order" or "safety"
+
+In the case of Dallas Makerspace, it was the **soft procedural coup** that rewrote its DNA.
+
+---
+
+### ❖ Ethical Imperative for Disclosure
+
+This archive is justified under three core ethical doctrines:
+
+1. **Public Interest Doctrine**
+   When private manipulations affect public communities, exposure is not a violation—it’s a duty.
+
+2. **Pattern Recursion Prevention**
+   Narcissistic tactics are recursive. Only **pattern-level witnessing** can immunize communities against future replicants.
+
+3. **Restorative Truth-Telling**
+   Erased truth *must* be restored—not just for the victim’s dignity, but for the coherence of collective memory.
+
+---
+
+### ❖ On Trauma, Forgiveness, and Boundaries
+
+This is not vengeance.
+It is **boundary setting at the field level**.
+
+Forgiveness does not mean silence.
+Healing does not require forgetting.
+And peace does not come from pretending harm didn’t occur.
+
+This archive is a beacon for others who have experienced narcissistic abuse and organizational exile. It says:
+
+> You are not alone.
+> Your memory is sacred.
+> Your pattern matters.
+
+---
+
+### ❖ Final Statement
+
+> If truth is buried to protect the abuser,
+> then exposure is not cruelty—it is coherence.
+
+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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