How should a plural protocol system respond when sanctuary protects harm? This Bridge Essay explores the balance between safeguarding dissent and enabling ethical override. It examines protocols for harm detection, adaptation, and recursive audit, proposing practical safeguards to ensure interventions reform injustice without erasing difference or dignity.

Explore how protocols create dynamic boundaries that both enable plural knowledge and protect epistemic sanctuary. This essay examines the need for infrastructural rules to uphold genuine diversity, challenge, and co-existence—ensuring that integration does not erase difference, but gives all worldviews space to thrive, contest, and co-create within Scientific Existentialism’s living ecosystem.