Multitudes and conflicts

These are a prime example of one way in which laws (free speech and freedom of assembly; local/state public health mandates; local, state, and federal law regarding ideas of public property and specific types of property) and norms (an expectation of how one is supposed to act) come into conflict. The notion that punishing someone who has broken a law is, generally speaking, accepted by the majority of people (the type or scale of punishment is usually what is contested, though we are also witnessing a growing discussion about police/prison abolition in a large way, something that I would not have expected even one year ago).

So, how do we make sense of society and culture when we so regularly see them as containing multitudes and conflicts?

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