# kaal:claim:3782220-022

**Claim.** Drawing a clear formal line between where individual rights stop and social responsibilities start makes the system brittle and unstable by turning that line into a focal point for competition, so the line between the two values must remain vague.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- values in genuine tension such as freedom and equality

**Source quote.**

> If we were to make a clear distinction between where our individual rights stop and social respon- sibilities start, then that formal line becomes a focal point for competition which makes the system brittle and unstable. Instead the line between the two values must remain vague.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 7

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Failure mode.** brittle formal boundary  (family: definitional-ambiguity)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** liberty-equality, vagueness, brittleness, focal-point, constitutional-design

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