bad · moral
Ask PrometheusBad (adjective) means: a quality that is not good. It emerges from good, difference: Being different from good creates a quality that is not good. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 2003 Northeast blackout spread across eight U.S. states and Ontario when a software bug in an Ohio control room failed to flag overgrown trees on power lines. engineering
- Leaked emails from the 2016 Democratic National Committee revealed systemic bias against Bernie Sanders’s campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton. institutions
- The FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in 2022 after auditors found $8 billion missing from customer accounts. economics
Emergence
from: good difference
through: Being different from good creates a quality that is not good
- negative evaluation
- undesirable quality
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (24 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | quality.value | is-a |
| contrasts-with | good.moral | contrasts with |