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* Legalists believe individuals will only behave in way that it useful to the larger society if it is rewarded or it is to avoid punishments. * They also believe that people are there to serve and strengthen the state. This led to a government where people were rewarded for helping the state and punished for weakening it. * They also believed that severe punishments for minor offenses would scare people into not daring to commit the major ones.

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