Definition
The structural reading of rights as interruptions of illegitimate conversions: privacy interrupts the conversion of knowledge into action, due process interrupts the conversion of institutional position into outcome, consent rules interrupt the conversion of access into authority, appeal interrupts the conversion of decision into finality, and separation of powers interrupts the conversion of execution into evaluation.
It matters because it states what rights are for in Ethotechnic terms: not protections added around power, but the mechanisms that keep a capability from becoming an authorization. The non-conversion principle is the general form; the rights are its specific, historically won instances.
Scale: Systemic · Phases: Design, Audit · Measurability: Qualitative · Maturity: Core concept
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References
- Non-conversion principle · Term
- Laws · Doctrine