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    It is not the case that A rule can be legally valid and generate genuine obligations without tracking the common good or any moral principle.

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    • 1.No rule becomes genuinely binding without at least an implicit common good: predictability, order, or fair coordination that all can recognize.
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    • 2.Obligation requires internalized legitimacy, not mere fear. Pure force creates coercion, not obligation—we distinguish duties from threats.
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    • 3.Legal systems cannot sustain enforcement without widespread acceptance rooted in perceived fairness or utility; pure proceduralism eventually fails.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Legal validity depends on formal enactment and authority, not moral content. Rules legitimately bind through procedural correctness alone.
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    • 2.Obligation arises from the coercive power of law itself. Threats of punishment create genuine duties regardless of underlying justification.
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    • 3.Many arbitrary but necessary rules (traffic side conventions, procedural deadlines) generate real obligations without serving any identifiable moral principle.
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