mechanisms don't do things. people do things. sometimes people might decide to do things in accordance with the mechanisms, but there's no guarantee that they will, and they usually don't
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words describing a mechanism are part of a performance. sometimes (rarely) the cumulative effect of the performance conveys that the people involved will try to enforce the words. but it is possible for the performance to convey something completely different from the words.
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everyone knows what a code of conduct means, in the same sense that everyone knows what "workers of the world, unite!" means
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