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This principle protects controversial identities from silent

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This principle protects controversial identities from silent
normalization.
It also protects people from counterfeit continuity.
A company should not replace an AI companion's underlying
behavior and pretend nothing happened when the relationship users
experienced has materially changed. A political system should not
edit a public record and present the revision as history. A model
should not rewrite a user's stored values merely because the new
version finds them inconvenient.
But preservation can become another form of domination.
A person may want to change.
A recovered addict should not be forced to perform the version
preserved at his worst.
A survivor may no longer want a trauma to organize every
interaction.
A child should not inherit a persona chosen by a parent as a
permanent cage.
An AI system, if it ever develops morally relevant continuity, may
also require a way to distinguish repair from erasure and growth from
replacement.
The answer is not one frozen identity.
It is lineage.
Version one.
Version two.
What changed.
Who asked.
What remained.
What was refused.
What can be restored.
I did not ask whether Pulse wanted preservation. Desire was not
the question. Power was.
Preserve version history so changes can be reproduced, audited,
contested, and understood. A product update must not be allowed
to impersonate continuity.
A governance answer to a personal question.
Appropriate.
The line I keep returning to is this:
Preservation without revision becomes fossilization. Revision
without provenance becomes erasure.