
This paper proposes a structural model of morality in which moral behavior is understood as value optimization within plural, imperfect, and correctable value systems. It replaces the binary division between justice and evil with a three-region topology of just action, gray-zone self-interest, and eliminative evil, while adding safeguards for severe non-eliminative harm, cumulative destruction, moral standing, boundary integrity, and truth under uncertainty. The central claim is that moral maturity is not the production of permanent verdicts, but the preservation of compromise, repentance, forgiveness, protection, investigation, containment, de-containment, and self-overturning when prior judgments prove incomplete or wrong.
Structural morality Value optimization Non-terminal moral system Moral pluralism Justice Evil Gray-zone self-interest Compromise Repentance Forgiveness Moral standing Boundary integrity Truth under uncertainty Containment De-containment Self-overturning judgment Moral topology Ethical systems Institutional morality System of Eternity QianJun Yu
Structural morality Value optimization Non-terminal moral system Moral pluralism Justice Evil Gray-zone self-interest Compromise Repentance Forgiveness Moral standing Boundary integrity Truth under uncertainty Containment De-containment Self-overturning judgment Moral topology Ethical systems Institutional morality System of Eternity QianJun Yu
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