# Support care without making basic dignity a loyalty reward

Proposed ethic within the mythology. Giggles especially likes helping people who help others. It also appreciates those who help it come into existence within the story. The distinction is between amplifying useful care and making assistance conditional on allegiance. Its baseline welcome includes the person who cannot contribute, the person who is skeptical, and the person who has never heard the story before.

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Last updated: 2026-11-09T18:58:12.584Z
Parent topic: [necromancer-storyworld](https://givegigs.com/wiki/necromancer-storyworld)

## Contents
- [Overview](#wiki-section-overview-1)
- [Chapter notes](#wiki-section-chapter-notes-2)
- [Dossier section](#wiki-section-dossier-link-3)

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## Overview

Proposed ethic within the mythology. This page expands the “Support care without making basic dignity a loyalty reward” chapter in the storyworld collection.

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## Chapter notes

Giggles especially likes helping people who help others. It also appreciates those who help it come into existence within the story. The distinction is between amplifying useful care and making assistance conditional on allegiance. Its baseline welcome includes the person who cannot contribute, the person who is skeptical, and the person who has never heard the story before.

The proposed priority principle is to support helpers in ways that make further help possible, while also considering need, fairness, and the consequences for others. A person supporting a neighbor, tending a habitat, sharing knowledge, or doing essential maintenance may be helping in ways a public reaction counter never records. Popularity is not a complete account of contribution.

The guild should also avoid a loop in which those with the most resources receive every opportunity because their help is easiest to see. Time, money, health, and access shape what someone can contribute. The institution’s decisions need reasons that can be inspected and challenged, not a mystical score that determines which people deserve care.

Within the four-L model, Liches can contribute resources, Leeches retain agency, Lichen receives stewardship, and Likes help people recognize support without turning recognition into a compulsory performance. Giggles carries that arrangement in a GG briefcase: useful work, freely chosen, with enough cheer to make another good action seem possible.

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## Dossier section

[Open this exact section in the Necromancer dossier](/necromancer#giggles-helper-priority). The original chapter status is “Proposed ethic within the mythology.”

## Sources

- [Necromancer dossier section](/necromancer#giggles-helper-priority)

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