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    It is not the case that Normative adequacy requires what Derek Parfit calls 'robustness to predictable human failure,' a criterion no ideal-agent code can satisfy by its own design parameters.

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    • 1.Ideal-agent codes can guide real agents by clarifying what we should strive toward, even if full compliance is unattainable.
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    • 2.Demanding that norms accommodate predictable failure risks entrenching mediocrity and lowering moral expectations unnecessarily.
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    • 3.Some failures are epistemic, not structural—better information and reasoning can reduce them without abandoning ideal-agent frameworks.
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    • 1.Ideal-agent codes assume perfect rationality and information; real agents predictably fail in both ways regardless of system design.
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    • 2.A normative framework that ignores systematic human limitations provides no practical guidance for actual moral decision-making.
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    • 3.Robustness to predictable failure is a feature, not a bug—it marks the difference between aspirational and actionable ethics.
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