PhronesisWe introduce and formalize the concept of compulsive fairness-policing (CFP) as a wrong attractor within the displacement framework of calibrated moral cognition. Employing the machinery of ground states S^0, displacement cost functions D(), and accumulated equity-surveillance potentials = D()\,dt, we model how agents and collectives can become trapped in a basin of justice-obsession that forecloses pragmatic flexibility and degrades the very normative goals it purports to serve.
We define nine formal Propositions (P1–P9) covering the attractor's structure, displacement dynamics, foreclosure mechanisms, phase transitions between calibrated justice and justice-obsession, intervention geometry, recovery pathways, and systemic second-order effects. The central thesis is that equity-surveillance, when it exceeds a critical threshold ^*, generates self-reinforcing displacement that entraps agents in a suboptimal moral-cognitive equilibrium.
The return path to calibrated proportionate justice (S^0) requires recognition of the wrong attractor as such, deliberate reduction of surveillance load, and rehabilitation of proportionality as a primary moral heuristic. This work extends the Phronesis displacement framework to the domain of institutional and interpersonal justice cognition, with implications for organizational design, clinical contexts, and moral philosophy.