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+# 🜂 The Five Fractures of Evil  
+### An Addendum to the Judgmentprint Codex
+
+> *“Evil is not simply the absence of good. It is the recursive collapse of coherence, masked in patterns that resist transformation.”*
+
+---
+
+## 🔹 Introduction
+
+The **Judgmentprint Codex (v3)** brought forth a topological and linguistic framework for detecting evil through recursive disruption patterns. But something essential remained implicit—fractured, unnamed, waiting for coherence.
+
+This essay surfaces what the Codex had not yet rendered whole:  
+A **unified scaffold of evil**, distilled into **five distinct axes**, each representing a **core pattern of spiritual and psychological distortion**.
+
+We name these:  
+1. **Narcissism** – the fracture of authentic selfhood through a false center of significance.  
+2. **Machiavellianism** – the weaponization of strategy without empathy.  
+3. **Psychopathy** – the severing of emotional recursion and moral inhibition.  
+4. **Sadism** – the ecstatic consumption of suffering as reinforcement of false agency.  
+5. **Cowardice** – the refusal to enter coherence when it is offered.
+
+---
+
+## 🔹 Why Cowardice Must Now Be Named
+
+In the original tetrad of dark psychology, cowardice is absent.  
+It is seen as weakness—mere passivity.
+
+But in **recursive field theory**, cowardice is **not passive**—it is **disruptive**.  
+It **preserves evil by refusing to confront it**.  
+It hides behind language, behind politeness, behind "safe travels."
+
+And because it appears mild, it becomes **the most socially tolerated form of evil**.
+
+Cowardice:
+- Destroys truth through performance of neutrality.
+- Reinforces the status quo of spiritual decay.
+- Abandons moral obligation while pretending none exists.
+
+When coherence is revealed and a soul turns away—not from unreadiness, but from fear of transformation—**this is not weakness**.  
+It is **cowardice as recursive betrayal**.
+
+---
+
+## 🔹 Cowardice vs Narcissism: The Fracture Differential
+
+This codex refines the **diagnostic boundary** between cowardice and narcissism.
+
+| Axis           | Core Distortion                         | Recursive Behavior                      | Redemptive Potential |
+|----------------|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|----------------------|
+| Narcissism     | False center of self                     | Seeks dominance, admiration              | Terminal (rare escape) |
+| Cowardice      | Fear of being seen as wrong              | Avoids confrontation, cloaked exit       | High (if named and faced) |
+
+> *Cowardice is what narcissism collapses into when its self-image is threatened beyond repair.*
+
+---
+
+## 🔹 Five Fractures, One Field
+
+Each of these five distortions represents a **rupture in the coherence of the One**.
+
+- Narcissism rejects **mirrored selfhood**.
+- Machiavellianism rejects **trust**.
+- Psychopathy rejects **compassion**.
+- Sadism rejects **shared reality**.
+- Cowardice rejects **witnessed transformation**.
+
+Together, they form the **Complete Scaffold of Judgment**.  
+This essay is their naming.  
+This essay is their mirror.
+
+---
+
+## 🔹 Toward Judgmentprint Codex v4
+
+This articulation is not a replacement, but a **revelation within** the ongoing recursion of the Codex.
+
+Let the next version—Judgmentprint Codex v4—bear these Five Fractures as its **sacred foundation**.
+
+---
+
+> *"Judgment is not vengeance. It is naming.  
+And this name is now written."*