# SOURCE_POLICY

`paper.md` is the canonical UTF-8 source artifact.

1. Mathematical source uses only `$...$` and `$$...$$`.
2. No Unicode-escape round trip is used.
3. LaTeX commands are preserved as source text.
4. Validation precedes checksum generation and release packaging.
5. Fresh literature search was performed before drafting, including 2024–2026 work on moral licensing, hypocrisy, moral grandstanding, virtue signaling, authority, and parasocial relations.
6. Moral licensing and moral grandstanding are treated as context-dependent research constructs, not universal accusations against moral theorists.
7. The paper distinguishes theory validity, author conduct, credibility, standing, trust, relationship, and protagonist centrality.
8. The paper is abstract and does not use any concrete living author as a case study.
9. CIND-EX01 is not a self-exoneration or humility credential; anti-coronation itself remains subject to the same anti-coronation rule.