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It is **structural**.\n\n### Why They Converge\n\n- **Logical consistency** requires minimum contradiction.\n- **Ethical soundness** requires minimum remediable harm tolerated.\n- **Economic optimality** requires minimum resource expenditure for maximum function.\n\nAll three point at the same optimum — the state in which the system produces its declared output through the most direct available path with minimum deviation and minimum waste.\n\n### The Predation Test as Triply Suboptimal\n\nPredation is therefore not just wrong. It is **triply suboptimal**:\n\n1. It introduces **logical inconsistency** into the system.\n2. It generates **remediable harm**.\n3. It elects an **inferior equilibrium** when a superior one was available — expending resources to extract rather than produce, which is maximum expenditure for minimum systemic return.\n\nThe predation test does not identify a moral violation and separately identify an economic inefficiency and separately identify a logical contradiction. 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