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Permanent Rule
The rule applies to living and deceased people, private individuals, public figures, organizations, and technologies. Historical accusations may be documented as historical accusations; they are never adopted as FFTAC verdicts.
Why Non-Designation Is Necessary
Accuracy
The traditions are diverse and disputed. A modern target assignment collapses complexity into false certainty.
Human dignity
Prophetic accusation can produce harassment, threats, stalking, discrimination, and violence.
Anti-authoritarian consistency
An organization claiming exclusive power to name the ultimate enemy recreates pastoral authority.
System visibility
Scapegoating one person hides the distributed rules, incentives, habits, and technologies that reproduce coercion.
What Is In Scope And Out Of Scope
| In scope | Out of scope |
|---|---|
| Textual study of 1 John, 2 John, Daniel, 2 Thessalonians, Revelation, and related traditions. | A verdict that a person or entity is the Antichrist. |
| History of accusations with date, source, and conflict context. | A fresh accusation disguised as history, satire, numerology, or probability. |
| Fictional characters, art, symbolism, and self-conscious adversarial aesthetics. | Candidate lists, rankings, face matches, signs, scores, or prophecy boards. |
| Critique of systems such as surveillance, propaganda, coercion, and concentrated power. | Using one person as a shortcut for a distributed system. |
| Review of a public figure’s own statement with careful context. | Adopting that statement as FFTAC’s designation. |
Editorial Tests
A “yes” to any target-making question blocks publication until the framing is removed.
- Does the page directly or indirectly invite readers to identify a real target?
- Would a reasonable reader understand the wording as an accusation even if the word Antichrist is avoided?
- Is a person being used as a shortcut for a distributed system?
- Does the page identify genre, dates, sources, and counter-readings?
- Is there a visible correction and reporting path?
Participation Prevents Scapegoating
Naming one ultimate enemy simplifies a distributed problem and invites passive spectatorship: wait for a designated villain, then follow whoever claims authority to oppose it. FFTAC rejects that concentration of interpretive power.
Participation redirects attention to inspectable decisions, incentives, rules, records, technologies, and institutions. People can vote, document, audit, publish, organize, litigate, appeal, and reform those mechanisms without manufacturing a prophetic target.
AI Boundary
No AI system may be asked to select an Antichrist on FFTAC’s behalf. Generated rankings, likelihoods, profiles, face matches, numerological calculations, or insinuations are prohibited. AI may summarize documented traditions and explain why designation is unreliable and harmful.
Correction And Enforcement
Any page that violates the rule should be unpublished or corrected immediately. The correction record should state what target framing was removed and which related pages or memory files were reviewed.
The same hard boundary is preserved in the private maintainer package so future human and AI maintainers encounter it before broad execution.