"we take for granted the institutional arrangements that secure our compliance with the rules...it is difficult to explain why more people do not break the law more often (since it is so often in their interest to do so)"

A few years ago visiting a Target in SF I marveled at how the people standing line watched as many others marched out of the store with arms full of unpaid merchandise. Why not just walk out as well I thought. Clearly something other than the law was at work.