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==== This explains how systems can become substantively unjust while remaining procedurally legitimate. ====

If people are trained to equate:
* morality with legality,
* goodness with compliance,
* danger with dissent,

then corruption can proceed gradually:
* exceptions are added,
* definitions shift,
* enforcement becomes selective,

all while the population continues to experience itself as moral.

The crucial insight is this:
once moral reasoning is outsourced to rules, whoever controls the rules controls morality by proxy.