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    It is not the case that An institution whose agents share the very defect it is designed to remedy cannot reliably serve as the external corrective that makes harmony possible.

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    • 1.Shared defects can create mutual accountability; agents with identical weaknesses may better recognize and check each other's lapses.
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    • 2.Perfect external correctives are unavailable, so requiring them is unrealistic; imperfect institutions may still improve outcomes substantially.
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    • 3.Self-awareness of shared defects can motivate institutional design that compensates through checks, transparency, and distributed power.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Agents who possess a defect lack the perceptual clarity needed to identify and correct that same defect in others reliably.
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    • 2.External correctives derive their legitimacy and effectiveness from moral or epistemic authority that defect-carriers cannot possess.
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    • 3.Systems cannot bootstrap themselves out of systemic problems; they require external standards independent of the problem itself.
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