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   "text": "In a rigid competitive hierarchy governed by secular laws, internal corruption arises because each member's optimal strategy is to push the written rules to their limit, while externally any change in the problems the group faces can find the hierarchy unready.",
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   "text": "Democracy itself decentralizes power, but to unify a large population holding diverse values the United States relies on rigid protocol centralization from a Rule-of-Law legal system, whose statutory clarity supplies the fairness and transparency that diverse groups require.",
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   "text": "Groups with decentralized, diverse values require protocol centralization in the form of explicit enforceable rules, because stability depends on the impartial application of law to display fairness, and explicit rules can unite a larger and more diverse membership.",
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   "text": "A for profit, open, diverse valued organization run under rigid Rule of Law is maximally unstable, so powerful stabilizing forces must be added to its governance rather than assumed.",
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   "text": "Overlapping or contradictory regulation raises the risk of selective enforcement and legal arbitrage, because entities that cannot be expected to comply with everything can instead exploit the gaps and inconsistencies to their advantage.",
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