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    It is not the case that For a genuine social norm to exist in a society, some enforcement mechanism must be in place.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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