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    A concretized legal rule issued by a corrupt or epistemic... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A concretized legal rule is morally normative because the moral principle that the common good requires authoritative institutions to specify, apply, and enforce rules on relevant matters presumptively and defeasibly entails such normativity.

    A concretized legal rule issued by a corrupt or epistemically deficient institution fails the normal justification thesis, defeating presumptive normativity.

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    • 1.Legitimacy requires institutional competence to track moral/legal truth; corrupt institutions systematically distort this epistemic function.
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    • 2.Presumptive normativity depends on justified confidence that rules serve their purported purpose; corruption undermines this confidence rationally.
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    • 3.We can distinguish between formal validity and normative force; a rule's legal status doesn't guarantee it binds us morally or prudentially.
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    • 1.Even epistemically flawed institutions can produce rules whose content is sound; content-based normativity doesn't require institutional virtue.
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    • 2.Presumptive normativity is pragmatic—rules reduce coordination costs regardless of origin; defeat requires showing actual harm, not institutional corruption alone.
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    • 3.Strict correlation between institutional legitimacy and rule-normativity creates circularity: we'd need independent criteria to identify corrupt institutions first.
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