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    For a genuine social norm to exist in a society, some enf... — Carmelics
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    For a genuine social norm to exist in a society, some enforcement mechanism must be in place.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • 1.A social norm states what one ought to do.
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    • 2.A social norm implies some form of sanction or punishment for non-compliance.
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    • 3.Ought-claims without any enforcement mechanism do not constitute genuine social norms.
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    • 1.Internalized moral norms guide behavior through guilt and conscience without any external enforcement mechanism.
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    • 2.Durkheim and Parsons document societies where collective moral beliefs function as genuine norms through socialization alone.
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    • 3.A norm that requires external enforcement to motivate compliance has already failed as a genuine social norm.
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    • 1.Hume and Wittgenstein show that linguistic and conventional norms (e.g., grammar rules) are genuinely normative without sanctions.
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    • 2.If enforcement were constitutive of normativity, there would be a vicious regress: the enforcement rule itself would require a meta-enforcement mechanism.
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    State enforcement of universal formal equality of opportunity in its private sphere applications would almost certainly do more harm than good. However, the fact that we do not want the police arresting people who choose friends on some allegedly prejudiced basis does not rule out enforcement of this universal social norm. Enforcement of social norms including this one might be carried out effectively by enlightened public opinion expressing itself in attitudes and private sphere choices. One mi
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