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    It is not the case that A law's pedigree within a social practice of rule-following confers no moral weight beyond the contingent habits that sustain it.

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    • 1.Social practices embed accumulated wisdom about coordination; dismissing pedigree ignores epistemically valuable tradition.
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    • 2.Stable rule-following practices create legitimate expectations and dependencies that generate moral duties to maintain them.
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    • 3.Without considering institutional history, we cannot distinguish justified reforms from destructive ruptures of social fabric.
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    • 1.Moral authority requires justification beyond mere historical continuity; habit alone cannot ground obligation.
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    • 2.Laws sustained only by contingent compliance lack the rational necessity characteristic of genuine moral norms.
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    • 3.Societies have reformed unjust laws despite their deep institutional entrenchment, showing pedigree is morally inert.
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