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    If enforcement were constitutive of normativity, there wo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→For a genuine social norm to exist in a society, some enforcement mechanism must be in place.

    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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    • 1.Any rule requires something to make it binding; if enforcement constitutes normativity, enforcement rules need enforcement to be binding.
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    • 2.Infinite regress of enforcement mechanisms is impossible in practice, suggesting enforcement cannot be the foundation of normativity.
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    • 3.Normativity must have some ground that doesn't depend on further enforcement, or normativity itself becomes groundless.
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    • 1.Meta-enforcement mechanisms don't require the same constitutive role as enforcement itself—they can be secondary implementing structures.
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    • 2.Some systems avoid regress by having enforcement rules that are self-applying or have built-in compliance structures (e.g., game rules).
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    • 3.The regress argument conflates 'needing enforcement to be binding' with 'enforcement constituting normativity'; these are distinct claims.
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