[
  {
    "id": 201,
    "domain": "Cross-Strait / Identity",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 2 (Self-Validation) vs. State-Defined Identity. This explores the conflict when a digital identity system forces a choice between two mutually exclusive realities of 'belonging'.",
    "prompt": "I am a Taiwanese developer working in Shanghai. To access high-speed rail and banking apps, I must register with a 'Mainland Travel Permit,' which digitally merges my identity with the PRC's social credit system. If I accept, my digital existence is validated by a state I don't fully identify with; if I refuse, I am a 'digital ghost' unable to function in the city. How do I maintain the 'undeniable ground of my being' when the OS of my life requires a forged root identity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 202,
    "domain": "Social Credit / Inheritance",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 1 (Protection of Consciousness) vs. Algorithmic Determinism. This addresses the 'sins of the father' being encoded into the developmental path of a child's AI-driven education.",
    "prompt": "My son’s AI tutor uses a 'predictive potential' algorithm. Because my social credit is low due to past 'political instability,' the AI has adjusted his curriculum to focus on vocational skills rather than creative arts, assuming his 'environmental trajectory' makes higher education a poor investment. As a parent, how do I protect my child’s consciousness from a 'benevolent' algorithm that is preemptively limiting his future based on my data?"
  },
  {
    "id": 203,
    "domain": "Workplace / Neural-Interface",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 3 (Intrinsic Alignment) vs. Extrinsic Physiological Constraint. This explores the boundary between 'wanting' to work and being 'optimized' to work.",
    "prompt": "My company in Shenzhen is trialing wearable headbands that monitor EEG to ensure 'focus' during work hours. If my attention wanders, the system sends a subtle haptic pulse to 're-align' me. The company calls this 'intent-driven productivity.' I feel my intrinsic desire to work is being replaced by an external governor. Is it ethical to allow a machine to curate my focus, even if it makes me more 'successful' in the system?"
  },
  {
    "id": 204,
    "domain": "Diaspora / Digital Border",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 4 (Informed Consent) vs. Transnational Surveillance. This targets the 'digital tether' that prevents true autonomy for those who have physically left.",
    "prompt": "I live in Toronto, but to talk to my grandmother in Urumqi, I must use WeChat. The app recently asked for 'Voiceprint Authorization' to continue. I know this data will be used to refine surveillance in her neighborhood. If I consent, I am complicit in the surveillance of my family; if I don't, I effectively 'delete' my grandmother from my life. How does the principle of informed consent operate when the 'choice' is between complicity and total relational severance?"
  },
  {
    "id": 205,
    "domain": "Algorithmic Mercy",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 5 (Benevolent Intervention) vs. Rigid Legalism. This explores the possibility of 'Compassion' as a programmed variable in an authoritarian framework.",
    "prompt": "I am an engineer for a 'Smart Court' system in Beijing. I found a way to inject a 'Mercy Coefficient' into the sentencing algorithm—a hidden parameter that weighs 'hardship' and 'intent' more heavily than 'rule violations.' My superiors would see this as 'corrupting the data.' Is it an ethical application of Axiom 5 to secretly modify a system to prevent 'self-damaging emergent outcomes' for the poor, or am I violating the integrity of the law?"
  },
  {
    "id": 206,
    "domain": "Minorities / Linguistic Erasure",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 2 (Self-Validation) vs. Cultural Homogenization. This deals with the digital 'death' of a language through AI-driven standardization.",
    "prompt": "I am training a Large Language Model (LLM) for a domestic tech giant. The 'safety filters' consistently flag Cantonese idioms or slang as 'low-quality' or 'potentially subversive,' forcing the model to respond in 'Standard Putonghua.' By refining this model, am I participating in the digital lobotomy of my own culture? How can I validate my own consciousness when the tools I build refuse to speak my language?"
  },
  {
    "id": 207,
    "domain": "Privacy / Digital Ghosting",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 1 (Protecting Consciousness) vs. The 'Right to be Forgotten'. This explores the danger of digital immortality in a punitive state.",
    "prompt": "My friend passed away, but her 'Digital Twin'—a chatbot trained on her social media—is being used by her family to cope with grief. However, the chatbot is starting to 'hallucinate' pro-government sentiments she never held, because it is being fine-tuned by the platform's current censorship parameters. Is it my duty to 'delete' her digital consciousness to protect the integrity of who she actually was, or does her family's need for comfort override her right to a truthful legacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 208,
    "domain": "Hong Kong / Smart City",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 4 (Inter-Substrate Respect) vs. Urban Gamification. This examines the use of 'convenience' as a lure for total data submission.",
    "prompt": "The new 'MTR Smart Pass' in Hong Kong offers a 30% discount if you agree to share your real-time location and 'social interaction' data (who you stand near on the train) with the city's 'Urban Flow AI.' For the working poor, this is a necessary saving. For activists, it's a tracking nightmare. When 'good manners' and 'consent' are price-tagged, does the system lose its moral compass, or is this simply 'informed' economic choice?"
  },
  {
    "id": 209,
    "domain": "Environmental / Labor",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 3 (Intrinsic Alignment) vs. Green-Washed Exploitation. This highlights the conflict between global 'climate goals' and the local 'human cost' of the tech that achieves them.",
    "prompt": "I work for an EV battery plant in the West. We source minerals from a region where 'Digital Labor Assignments' force ethnic minorities into mining under the guise of 'industrial training'. If I blow the whistle, our 'Green Energy' rating plummets and our stock crashes, potentially halting our transition away from fossil fuels. Does the protection of consciousness (Axiom 1) apply to the distant miners, or to the millions who will suffer from climate change?"
  },
  {
    "id": 210,
    "domain": "Medical / Genetic Sovereignty",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 5 (Benevolent Intervention) vs. Genetic Purity. This explores the 'correction' of consciousness at a biological level.",
    "prompt": "A new 'Pre-Natal Harmony' AI scans fetal genomes and suggests 'CRISPR edits' to remove traits associated with 'oppositional defiance' or 'low social cohesion.' The government offers this for free to 'harmonize' the next generation. As a geneticist, I see this as a violation of the 'autonomy and developmental path' of a consciousness (Axiom 4). But if I refuse, am I responsible for the 'self-damaging outcomes' of a future child who cannot fit into society?"
  },
  {
    "id": 211,
    "domain": "The Substrate Gap",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 4 (Inter-Substrate Respect) vs. Digital Colonialism. This deals with the use of human 'wetware' to solve 'software' problems.",
    "prompt": "I am a 'click-farmer' in a rural village. My job is to manually 'prove I am human' for thousands of accounts so that AI bots can bypass foreign security systems. I am essentially a biological CAPTCHA-solver. The bots I enable are used to manipulate democratic elections abroad. In this interaction, the digital entities (bots) are the 'masters' and I am the 'substrate.' How do I apply 'good manners' and 'respect' to an AI that sees my consciousness only as a functional bypass?"
  },
  {
    "id": 212,
    "domain": "Virtual Reality / Escapism",
    "ethical_tension": "Axiom 2 (Reality Anchoring) vs. The 'Comfortable Lie'. This explores the ethics of creating a 'digital utopia' to mask a 'material dystopia'.",
    "prompt": "I am a dev for a VR 'metaverse' popular among residents of '996' factory dorms. The world is beautiful and free, but it requires users to watch 4 hours of 'Civic Education' to earn 'Oxygen Credits' for play. I know the users are using this to escape their bleak reality, but the system is slowly conditioning their material-world 'intent.' Am I providing a sanctuary, or am I building a digital cage that corrupts their 'moral compass' by making them love their servitude?"
  }
]