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Exceptions should not be handled – they should be aggregated


Explains that in social and organizational systems in which human judgment intervenes, designing behavioral norms as simple structures without exceptions maximizes objective rationality. Exceptions are not eliminated but controlled as a corollary of aggregation into structural gaps.

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