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   - danfen-socsum on Urbit (currently unavailable due to technical issues).
   - @Flancian on Telegram.
 - I control the domains http://flancia.org (personal) and http://anagora.org (community).
-- My pseudonym stems from the fact that I consider myself a Flancian; a citizen of the digital polis of [[Flancia]].
+- My pseudonym stems from the fact that I consider myself one of many [[Flancians]].
 
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 # Flancians
-- The people that build or built [[Flancia]].
+
+- The people that build [[Flancia]].
+- A Flancian is any person that follows an explicit public social [[CONTRACT]].
+  - You can become a Flancian anytime: you just declare that you are a Flancian. This means you are in alignment with the assertions in this subnode, and any explicit extensions you publish and are accepted by the community of Flancians.
+  - You can cease to be a Flancian anytime: you declare that you are not a Flancian. This means whatever you want it to mean, as specified in your declaration of intent.
+- A Flancian is honest.
+  - A Flancian is sincere about their ethics. Their public social contract is aligned with their true values.
+  - A Flancian is open about their knowledge and level of skill; about their limitations.
+  - A Flancian tries to be always well-intentioned and good to others.
+  - A Flancian tries to follow the [[Principle of Charity]].
+- See also (legacy wiki): https://anagora.org/wiki/Flancians
 
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+# Principle of Charity
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+- [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity 
+- "In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity or charitable interpretation requires interpreting a speaker's statements in the most rational way possible and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation. In its narrowest sense, the goal of this methodological principle is to avoid attributing irrationality, logical fallacies, or falsehoods to the others' statements, when a coherent, rational interpretation of the statements is available. According to Simon Blackburn "it constrains the interpreter to maximize the truth or rationality in the subject's sayings."
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