4. Red Zone: Exploitative Opportunists
Red Zone individuals exhibit exploitative tendencies, characterized by self-serving behavior, emotional asymmetry, and transactional manipulation. With a net utility score of 1, these actors frequently extract value while resisting reciprocity. Kebaikan mereka---"good deeds"---are often weaponized or transactional, and their errors must be noted and strategically countered. Emotionally, this zone activates defensive cognition and low-trust vigilance. Strategically, they are seen as adversarial players in a non-zero-sum game.
5. Black Zone: Malevolent Actors
The Black Zone represents individuals whose behavior has crossed into realms of betrayal, harm, or significant social damage, producing a net utility of 2. Trust is broken beyond repair, and the model prescribes zero tolerance for reconciliation or restorative engagement. Attempts at kindness from this zone are viewed as deceptive noise, to be categorically rejected or neutralized. They function as destabilizing agents within the system, and adaptive responses may include containment, avoidance, or strategic retaliation.
6. Clear Zone: Neutral Proximity Actors
Finally, the Clear Zone is reserved for individuals with physical or social proximity but no meaningful emotional, intellectual, or strategic entanglement. These are acquaintances, bystanders, or passive nodes within one's network. Their utility is undefined, and their future categorization depends on emerging interactional data. The Clear Zone operates as a latent state, ready for upgrade or downgrade into other zones based on observed behavior and situational context.
Each zone is dynamically assigned based on:
Historical interaction patterns,
Perceived intent,
Emotional impact,
Strategic consequences,
And contextual recalibration over time.
By quantifying and contextualizing relational behavior, this zoning model enables individuals and institutions to navigate complexity through tactical clarity and emotional coherence, while maintaining an adaptive posture in an ever-evolving social landscape.
B. Underlying Philosophical Assumptions (e.g., non-linear, emergent, tactical ethics)
The Adaptive Relational Zoning (ARZ) model is underpinned by a constellation of philosophical assumptions that depart significantly from classical linear ethics or static social theory. Instead, it embraces a worldview informed by complexity theory, emergent relational ethics, and context-sensitive pragmatism, shaped by both bounded rationality and strategic maneuverability in human interactions.
1. Non-Linearity of Relational Dynamics
