This involves complex patterns of control and limitation. Control is when change in one pattern consistently initiates change in another. Harmony is the growth or maintenance of a pattern with minimum destruction of its component patterns or surrounding pattern. Information may increase or decrease harmony. Information which decreases harmony may be called disinformation.
Disinformation is dependent on context.
A pattern which grows or maintains itself with minimal disinformation is functional. When this process is aware, it may be called ethical. A pattern which produces disinformation is to that extent dysfunctional. When this process is aware, it may be called unethical. When a pattern, with awareness, maintains its surrounding pattern at the expense of its own maintenance, this may be called altruism.