🇯🇵 Major crime in the news in Japan
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This is what enforces social cohesion though it does have consequences in mass conformity.
I know when everyone was wearing masks, when it was no longer enforced people were so used to wearing them that it took MONTHS to ditch them, anecdotally I heard from some it took the one guy to not wear theirs, then you'd have few looking around seeing they weren't in trouble then the next bravest would take theirs off and begin a chain reaction.
On the flip side though, it does make it a bureaucratic hell hole at times, try opening a bank there to understand what I mean..
It starts with cutting in line. When people are guilted into thinking "No big deal, it only happens once in a while", they are surprised to see the behavior propagate and subsequently ask "Why is everyone cutting in line now? What happened to manners?"
I think arguing for the appropriate punishment makes sense, but the "not a big deal" attitude is how society devolves. People didn't just spontaneously develop customs and norms. Certain pressures existed to create them.