I think there’s a bit of a jump from ‘social norm’ to ‘how our government deals with murders’. Referring to the latter as ‘social’ doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I think I’ve explained myself poorly, I meant to use the phrase social reward/punishment to refer exclusively to things forming friendships and giving people status, which is doled out differently to “physical government punishment”. Saddam Hussein was probably a bad example as he is also someone who would clearly also receive the latter.
I think there’s a bit of a jump from ‘social norm’ to ‘how our government deals with murders’. Referring to the latter as ‘social’ doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I think I’ve explained myself poorly, I meant to use the phrase social reward/punishment to refer exclusively to things forming friendships and giving people status, which is doled out differently to “physical government punishment”. Saddam Hussein was probably a bad example as he is also someone who would clearly also receive the latter.