@Hyolobrika yes! but in modern states, the law changes a lot. sure, i sometimes break laws i think are wrong, but the evolving sensibilities expressed by overt state action have a surprising sway over what i think right or wrong. 1/

@Hyolobrika as a kid, wearing a seatbelt in a car was for punishment. now i always wear a seatbelt. it’s the law, and there was a period when i had to remind myself, and i got ticketed for forgetting. but i now agree, and voluntarily buckle up. would i have done the same, knowing the same social science, if the law hadn’t changed? i don’t know. 2/

@Hyolobrika but i think much of what it means for a state to be legitimate has to do with an unobservable propensity for its publics to internalize state action in forming their own sense of right and wrong. /fin