3 years ago I asked a political philosopher a question at a talk and in response she told me that you can enforce laws without coercion. What does this mean
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When traffic lights were first introduced to replace having an actual cop there with a whistle at the intersection people predicted it would lead to chaos and mass accidents because the light can't give you a ticket for ignoring it, but it turned out they work pretty well
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So, I take it
@christapeterso's point isn't that we need coercion to enforce the law in every instance; lots of folks will follow the law based on accordance with immediate inclination. I have no inclination to murder, so complying with that law is pretty easy. -
But the coercion is still necessary for enforcement when folks run up against it; the thing about the traffic cases is that the laws in those cases aren't just about conformity, either. They're also about dispute resolution when there's an accident.
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