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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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