The Black Rabbit: Psychological Framework and Moral Duality

The Black Rabbit is an illustrated fable by J. C. Howard about two civilizations whose competing accounts of goodness become dependent on condemning one another. This complete edition preserves the entire story and all nine illustrations, followed by separate commentary explaining its psychological and philosophical framework. The commentary examines moral comparison, dependence on an enemy, ideological purity, the interpretation of evidence, the limits of moral measurement, and institutional resistance to shared success. Its religious application considers how images of good and evil can support antagonistic identity while religious teachings also provide resources for transforming hostility. It places the framework in dialogue with research on intergroup bias and biased assimilation. This is an independent conceptual interpretation, not a peer-reviewed study or an empirically validated psychological model. The story took several days to write; the framework behind it took years to construct. The complete illustrated story is free to read or listen to using the text-to-speech controls on the author's website:https://thegoldenmanifest.com/articles/the-black-rabbit/ Author: J. C. Howard. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3050-3617Version 1.0, 15 October 2026. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Related book: Finding Yourself: The God Continuum, Volume 1.Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Yourself-God-Continuum-1/dp/B0FNY9PKSZApple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/finding-yourself/id6753191580