External normativity is spoiled by its own threshold problem. [causal]
A "bit" of external normativity is utterly spoiling because the decision of how much of a "bit" is required must also rest on external grounds.
DEFINE: The 'bit' of external normativity is presented as a technical concept whose threshold is self-defeating.
Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 504