(In particular, ‘scapegoating’ feels like a very different frame than the one I’d use here)
Having read Zvi’s post and my comment, do you think the norm-enforcement process is just, or even not very unjust? If not, what makes it not scapegoating?
I think scapegoating has a particular definition – blaming someone for something that they didn’t do because your social environment demands someone get blamed. And that this isn’t relevant to most of my concerns here. You can get unjustly punished for things that have nothing to do with scapegoating.
Good point. I think there is a lot of scapegoating (in the sense you mean here) but that’s a further claim than that it’s unjust punishment, and I don’t believe this strongly enough to argue it right now.
Having read Zvi’s post and my comment, do you think the norm-enforcement process is just, or even not very unjust? If not, what makes it not scapegoating?
I think scapegoating has a particular definition – blaming someone for something that they didn’t do because your social environment demands someone get blamed. And that this isn’t relevant to most of my concerns here. You can get unjustly punished for things that have nothing to do with scapegoating.
Good point. I think there is a lot of scapegoating (in the sense you mean here) but that’s a further claim than that it’s unjust punishment, and I don’t believe this strongly enough to argue it right now.