Insert into 3: 139 as corrections and additions to Proposition 15:1

he trends to show positive emotive reactions, and (c) if these circumstances are made visible to others in encounters, the others tend to give the person who recieved big rewards for small efforts emotive degradings (such as envy or indignation).

Consider first what we can learn from clause (a) and (b). If granted etc.

 

Insert in 3: 140 before the heading Anomie

Thus is clear that a legal law may be unfair.

Clause (c) in Proposition 15:1 hints that unfairness is a volcanic crater that spontaineuosly erups in circumstances described in Clause (b), i.e. when too big rewards follow to some who have excerziced small or no efforts. Indignance  will hit professors who, without giving the students full credit, take as their own discoveries of their students, made in hard and long work on their theses. Indignant demands of reformation will arise when Christain priests give eucarist to themselves but not to their congregation. Indignent protests are certain when white citizens have legal privileges that are denied other races.     

 

 

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(f) If visible, the above reactions of compliance and deviation spread to other encounters in a shared symbolic environment

A remarkable quality of social control is stated clause (f) in Proposition 16:5. Sanctions and compensations for wrongdoers are called for also by people who have not been injured or deprived by the perpetrators. This is the basis of jurisprudence {XE "jurisprudence"} .

That those who have been offended are ready to apply sanction is easy to understand. It also seems reasonable that the hurt ones may react stronger than others in the general public. However, it is a remarkable form of solidarity that all involved – affected or unaffected, acquaintances and strangers, good or bad – tend to apply sanctions spontaneously to a violator of social norms.  

To violate a fellowman {XE "violation of fellowman"}  is not a private matter XE "private matters" . As soon as it becomes visible or told, it becomes is a public issue {XE "public issues"}  and subject to a public response. Without this quality of human interaction, social life would be reduced to an eternal tit for tat between individuals acting on their own. A human society, {XE "society"}  as we know it, would not be possible.

People often feel that it is something barren or even “inhuman” about reasoning in strictly economic terms. Economic transactions can remain private and fair if done between equals. When one party has an advantage, for example, more or better information {XE "market information"} than the other in a market, their transactions can more easily become a contentious public issue about fairness. More on this is found in Volume 6.