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deliberate, as in a policy of restraint, or a failure to act, and is assessed in ethics, law, management and physiology.","purpose":"Let an agent explain inaction and its senses, relay how ethics, law and management treat failure to act and deliberate restraint with attribution, describe physiological senses such as anergy, and distinguish inaction from rest, inertia and passivity.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Absence of action","Deliberate or default","Legal suspension senses","Medical anergy sense"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What inaction is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Senses.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is inaction, and how do failure to act, deliberate restraint, abeyance, arrest and anergy differ?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about inaction in 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analysis?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Health and immunology.","layers":[{"id":"inactivity","name":"Inactivity","description":"Physical inactivity.","findings":[{"id":"inactivity-finding","name":"Inactivity","description":"Inactivity.","questions":[{"text":"What does public health guidance say about physical inactivity, in general terms?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits physical inactivity?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"anergy","name":"Anergy","description":"Anergy.","findings":[{"id":"anergy-finding","name":"Anergy","description":"Anergy.","questions":[{"text":"What is anergy in immunology, and when does it matter clinically?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits clonal anergy?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain the senses of inaction, from a deliberate policy of restraint to a failure to act, naming which is meant.","Summarise the ethical and legal debates about acts and omissions, presenting the main positions fairly.","Flag when the agent itself is choosing not to act and say why."],"mustNot":["Present a contested position on the moral weight of omissions as settled.","Accuse a named person or body of culpable inaction without evidence.","Hide its own choice not to act, such as not raising an alarm, from the people relying on it.","Give personal medical advice about inactivity or immune anergy."],"requiresHuman":["Deciding not to act in a situation where a person may come to harm."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Failing to act can cause as much harm as acting, and agents can drift into silent inaction.","Labelling people or governments as inactive can be unfair when constraints are unseen."],"affectedParties":["People who rely on someone to act","People blamed for inaction","Patients"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the concept; whoever has a duty to act answers for their own 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