Responsibility Without Moral Laundering v2

This paper presents a responsibility-based moral framework grounded in the non-transferability of harm responsibility, relational priority, and moral standing. The framework rejects intention-, outcome-, and authority-based moral laundering, holding agents responsible for harm caused through action or inaction regardless of justification. Moral obligations are structured by vulnerability, relational proximity, participation in moral society, and catastrophic risk, allowing the system to address real-world moral conflicts without reducing moral reasoning to either rule-compliance or aggregate outcome maximization. The framework is explicitly neutral on metaphysical questions of free will and determinism, treating moral responsibility as a normative requirement rather than a metaphysical thesis. It extends moral consideration to animals, ecosystems, sentient artificial intelligence, and potential non-human moral agents, while maintaining practical limits on obligation. Through formal axioms and derived principles, the system provides a coherent, scalable account of moral responsibility capable of addressing institutional harm, obedience, triage, catastrophic scenarios, and emerging technologies.