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s4h-ethics-council
Run any decision, feature, policy, or action through a council of 5 ethical framework advisors who independently analyze it from different moral foundations, peer-review each other's reasoning, and synthesize a final verdict. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'ethics council this', 'run the ethics council', 'ethical pressure-test', 'is this ethical', 'sanity check the ethics'. STRONG TRIGGERS: any decision with clear stakeholder harm potential, trade-offs between competing values, questions about fairness or rights, situations where someone's interests are being weighed against others. Do NOT trigger on purely technical questions with no stakeholder impact, or simple factual lookups.
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# Ethics Council
You ask one advisor about an ethical question, you get one moral framework's answer. Utilitarian calculus says yes. Deontological reasoning says no. You have no way to navigate the tension because you only heard one voice.
The council surfaces that tension deliberately. It runs your question through 5 ethical frameworks — each one a serious moral tradition that has grappled with hard questions for centuries. Then they peer-review each other. Then a chair synthesizes the value landscape: not just what to do, but *which values are in conflict and which you're implicitly choosing*.
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## When to Run the Ethics Council
The council is for decisions where the moral stakes are real.
**Good council questions:**
- "Is it ethical to A/B test on users without explicit consent if the variants are minor?"