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    Challenges→Whether an action is wrong depends on whether it is optimal to apply sanctions to that action

    If wrongness is defined by optimal sanctioning, then in societies where enforcement is systematically corrupt or weak, previously wrong actions become permissible by institutional accident.

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    Key Terms

    Institutional(in aesthetics)
    Dependent on human systems, rules, or agreements rather than existing naturally on their own.
    Optimal(as the criterion for when a sanction should be applied)
    The best possible outcome or choice given the circumstances—the one that works better than any other alternative.
    institutional accident(as used in the statement)
    An unintended result that happens because of how a system is poorly designed or doesn't work properly, not because of any deliberate choice.
    normative ethics
    Systematic and theoretical guidance for how to live, whether in the form of rules for behavior or dispositions of character to be cultivated.
    permissible(deontic logic / possible worlds semantics)

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    A proposition p is permissible if and only if p holds in some i-acceptable world
    sanctioning(as used in ethics and law)
    The system of punishments or consequences that a society uses to enforce rules and discourage bad behavior.
    wrongness(Offered as an example of a proposed naturalistic constitutive explanation, used to illustrate the failure of such accounts)
    According to meta-ethical utilitarian naturalism, for an action to be wrong is for it to fail to maximize the general happiness.

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