# bad (moral)

a quality that is not good

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain:   ·  Arena: bad

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [good](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-good.moral), [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation)

**Through:** Being different from good creates a quality that is not good

**Novel properties:**
- negative evaluation
- undesirable quality

## Examples
- The 2003 Northeast blackout spread across eight U.S. states and Ontario when a software bug in an Ohio control room failed to flag overgrown trees on power lines. *(engineering)*
- Leaked emails from the 2016 Democratic National Committee revealed systemic bias against Bernie Sanders’s campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton. *(institutions)*
- The FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in 2022 after auditors found $8 billion missing from customer accounts. *(economics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bad.moral.json*  
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