If you want it in modern jargon, it's Institutions (as in Institutionalism in...
@rk If you want it in modern jargon, it's Institutions (as in Institutionalism in economics) The gist is if you **suspended** laws on murder, most people wouldn't murder any more than usual because the laws are internalized into people's heads. I think societies with the highest murder rates have 30% of all individuals who die, die from murder- from hunter/gather societies, pre-farming & also the same for Chimpanzees.
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The current administration wants to suspend all the old laws and think overnight the US will become a Russian style kleptocracy. I think they will have the same problem the US had trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan. If the institutions aren't in people's heads, you get slow uptake to the new system.