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    It is not the case that Ritual, moral norms, and righteousness are corrosive to natural efficacy

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    • 1.Xunzi argues that ritual (li) corrects the distortions of raw human nature, making genuine efficacy possible rather than undermining it.
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    • 2.Natural dispositions toward greed and conflict, left uncultivated, produce social disorder that diminishes collective and individual efficacy.
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    • 3.Therefore, ritual and moral norms are constitutive conditions for efficacy in social beings, not corruptions of it.
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    • 1.The Daodejing itself (ch. 17-18) treats the emergence of ritual as symptomatic of social decay, not as its cause, implying ritual responds to prior loss of de.
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    • 2.If ritual arises in response to already-diminished naturalness, then ritual is an effect of corrosion rather than its source, reversing the causal claim.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Following nature is efficacious
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    • 2.Specifically human activity, artifice, and tools such as ritual, moral norms, and righteousness deviate from nature
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