Just as we need to move from thinking about the consequences of compliance to thinking about the wider consequences of acceptance, we need to go further. Focusing purely on the consequences of acceptance of rules ignores the “transition” costs of getting those rules accepted in the first place. And yet these can certainly be significant (Brandt 1963: section 4; 1967 [1992: 126]; 1983: 98; 1988: 346–47, 349–50 [1992: 140–143, 144–47]; 1996: 126–28, 145, 148, 152, 223).