Civil society depends on internal guilt control, not external fear control

Evidence

Despite the centrality of self-sanctions in the regulation of behavior, they typically are unacknowledged or never measured in psychosocial and economic theories. Regardless of whether individuals are “good” or “bad,” they have to live with themselves, with the choices they make, and how they behave in their daily lives. A civil society cannot be run on fear control alone. It requires massive social surveillance and an extensive system of punitive sanctions to stifle noncompliance. A civil society is largely a self-governing one. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 70 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

A civil society cannot be run on fear control alone. It requires massive social surveillance and an extensive system of punitive sanctions to stifle noncompliance. A civil society is largely a self-governing one. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 70 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moral conduct grounds itself in physical fear and solidarity with tormentable bodies, not rationalization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2563; Guilt requires holding internalized personal norms of justice, not external pressure — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 444; Functional civil societies depend on self-governance rather than fear and surveillance — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 70 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Civil society depends on internal self-sanction, not external surveillance, for order #corroborates (0.97) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 70
• Functional civil societies depend on self-governance rather than fear and surveillance #corroborates (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 70
• Internal moral self-sanctions can be neutralized by psychosocial mechanisms #complicates (0.78)
• Group responsibility itself weakens moral control over harmful acts #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 427