"Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure."

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Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.

— Ludwig von Mises