DTM.8:11 - SoTA-Echoing

Medzhitov, Schneider and Soares, Disease Tolerance as a Defense Strategy (2012) are a historical source for distinguishing reduction of an agent’s amount from reduction of its damaging consequences. This pattern adapts the causal distinction to named activities and functions; it does not equate disease tolerance with social tolerance.

Tang, Mou and Xu, Defense strategies for plant health: Disease resistance and tolerance (2025) also distinguish protective effects from damage caused by the response. That distinction informs the comparison of residual effects and response costs in :4.3–.5; the receiving practice must establish the effects of its actual actions.

Compared with one generic suppression target, the four-target account can show why a locally successful action leaves spread or impaired function unresolved. Compared with a complete protection model, it can stop after the smallest relation sufficient to distinguish feasible choices. Existing subject methods establish intervention effects; existing decision methods compare their outcomes.