Enforceability‑First Ethics

Ethical prescriptions should be judged by whether social monitoring and enforcement can realistically make following them in an individual's self‑interest; absent enforceability, abstract exhortations are unlikely to persist or guide behavior. This reframes ethics as a practical institutional design problem, not just abstract moral reasoning. — If adopted, this would shift debates about moral education, public campaigns, and ethical theory toward institutional design and enforcement mechanisms, altering how policymakers and moralists propose behavior change.