The Refusal Libraries

Five argument libraries and a flagship-adjacent module, under one roof — and a hostile map of the flagship’s own text.
6libraries
132objections
5 tiers
35mechanisms
136attested deployments

The flagship argues that coming into existence is a harm. The four wings are rebut-only optionality defenses: each answers the objections to a contested liberty without urging anyone to exercise it. Veganism is not a wing but a flagship-adjacent module: it argues harm on the flagship’s own register rather than defending a choice. “Refusal Libraries” is a venue name, not a category claim — every card below carries its own register. Pick a surface.

Procreation & Existence

The flagship library: the case that coming into existence is a harm, with its objections graded across five tiers and answered.

live 82 objections pinned v4.1.5 argues a thesis
The wings — each defends a right and never recommends the act

Right to Die

The optionality defense of a right to choose one's own death — objections met on harm, consent, sovereignty, and compensation.

provisional-complete 17 objections v0.3.19 rebut-only

Abortion

The abortion right in two layers — a rebut-only optionality core, plus the suite's lone licensed advisory-positive claim (antinatalist-grounded, zero-force).

complete 7 objections v0.1.6 rebut-only

Transgenderism

Gender self-determination as an optionality right — objections across sovereignty, consent, and harm, each answered.

complete 12 objections v0.1.11 rebut-only

Anthropocentrism

Whether human moral supremacy is rationally mandatory — six objections to the anthropocentric default, met on their own terms.

provisional-complete 6 objections v0.1.7 rebut-only
Flagship-adjacent — argues a thesis, on the flagship’s own register

Veganism

Flagship-adjacent module — the positive case for veganism, on the flagship's harm-and-consent register. Outside the Refusal Suite (K179). Eight objections, sorted by standing, harm-accounting, and license.

complete 8 objections v0.2.1 argues a thesis
Instrument — a hostile pass over the flagship’s own text

The Adversarial Map

For each objection in the flagship, the next move an opponent makes after reading our rebuttal — sorted into four dispositions. One of the four is reader-facing so far: the 22 continuations that no rewrite of our text closes, and the 9 commitments they come to rest on instead.

live 21 of 82 nodes one disposition of four attacks our own text

Being built

Not announced, and it has no date. It is named here because it is built on this corpus, and a reader who finds it later should know where it came from.

Argue the Argument

A card game whose deck is this taxonomy. You draw an objection and answer it; the objection comes in two registers — the way people actually say it, and the strongest academic form of the same attack — and the rebuttal that answers one has to answer the other.

unannounced · in authoring